Immigrants -
Health
By James Seadon
A
report recently revealed that Newham, in the East
End of London, is the tuberculosis capital of the
western world. Its TB rate is double that of
India. The increase of asylum seeking and
immigration into our already overcrowded cities
has reintroduced a disease commonly known as 'the
white plague' endangering the lives of thousands
in the process. The reluctance of the authorities
to confront the truth, which could cause an
epidemic posing a terrifying threat to the
nation's health, has led to some experts breaking
ranks in a bid to get to grips with the situation
before it spirals out of control. Dr Peter Davies
a consultant chest physician is one such expert.
"We simply have to say clearly, once and for
all, that the true cause of the return of
tuberculosis in Britain is immigration. We just
have to overcome this taboo about race and TB and
look at the facts directly."
Dr Davies is not alone in his analysis. Professor
Peter Ormerod, one of the leading British experts
on the disease, says, "People can say what
they like about racism, but facts are facts
.…more than 56% of the TB cases in Britain
today are in people who were born abroad."
It is not racist to point out these facts nor is
it the fault of the immigrants who carry this
deadly plague. The blame lies with a liberal
elite who, in pursuit of their multicultural
Utopia, refuse to effectively deal with the
asylum-seeker issue and in their impossible tight
rope-balancing act of not offending the
sensibilities of ethnic minorities show their
true contempt for the indigenous population.
The World Health Organisation estimates that
"as many as 50% of the world's refugees may
be infected with TB" - a terrifying
statistic when you consider that Britain is one
of the most popular destinations for so-called
refugees, indeed asylum-seekers coming through
Heathrow are 22 times more likely to be suffering
from TB than Britons. This can only serve to pour
fuel on the flames that are already burning
fiercely. The disease is already thriving in many
cities such as Birmingham, Bradford,
Wolverhampton, Blackburn, Bolton and Leicester,
each with its own distinctive immigrant
population. Established immigrants going back
home to visit a country with a high rate of TB,
or being visited by relatives who then import the
disease, further aggravate the situation.
According to the Public Health Laboratory Service
the average infection rate for black Africans in
1998 was 210 per 100,000, and for those from the
Indian sub-continent 121 per 100,000. This
contrasts with just 4.4 per 100,000 for the
indigenous white population.
That said, white people can catch TB - which is
now developing new strains with strong resistance
to antibiotics - just as easily as non-whites, so
the widespread NHS practice of immunising only
Asian children and refusing to give the same
protection to white children is both racist and a
deadly threat to our own youngsters. It is a
fundamental duty of any government to safeguard
the nation's health, but the handling of this
issue amounts to wilful neglect by the political
establishment. We deserve to live in security,
without the fear of such an unnecessary threat.
It is clear that only our party recognises the
most basic obligation of any government - putting
its own people first!
An
NHS hospital is spending £6,000 a week on an
illegal immigrant with TB who refuses to be
treated. The money is being spent keeping him in
a special isolation unit. Air pumped into the
room is filtered to reduce the risk of infecting
other people. Note, REDUCE the risk not PREVENT.
The
cost to the NHS of treating asylum seekers and
other immigrants with infectious diseases could
be more than £1 billion for each year's
arrivals. Research by think tank Migrationwatch
says the number of cases could run into tens of
thousands. The infections of particular concern
are Aids, the hepatitis viruses B and C and
tuberculosis, it said. These diseases represent
specific, previously uncommon infections which,
in some sending countries, are much more
prevalent than in the UK, it said.
"The potential cost to the NHS is enormous
in both financial and staff terms," said
Roger Williams, professor of hepatology at
University College, London. "It is
absolutely essential that firm action be taken to
prevent any further increase in this growing pool
of potential infection. Furthermore, even a
fraction of the money spent in the UK would treat
a far larger number of patients in their own
countries." The authors multiplied the
incidence of these diseases in the sending
countries by the number of migrants from them to
get an approximate measure of the likely number
of cases arriving in Britain, the organisation
said.
For Aids patients, it has been estimated that
modern anti-viral therapy costs at least £15,000
a year, while for hepatitis B and C the cost of
annual therapy is £10-12,000, Migrationwatch
said. A Department of Health spokeswoman said,
"Access to the NHS is based on residence in
the UK. A person who has made a formal
application for permission to take refuge in the
UK is exempt from charges for any NHS treatment
received."
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