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Thread ID: 7467 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-06-18
2003-06-18 23:00 | User Profile
How can anyone doubt the White West is under siege on all fronts?
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Aids-infected asylum seekers 'overwhelm UK hospitals' By Francis Elliott, Daniel Foggo and Thair Shaikh (Filed: 15/06/2003)
Hospital consultants reveal today that the NHS is being overwhelmed by hundreds of Aids sufferers from abroad, who account for up to two thirds of all new HIV patients in Britain. Doctors across the country said that they felt compelled to speak out because their departments were at crisis point.
The cost of treating infected foreigners - about ã15,000 a year each - is putting hospitals into debt and threatening to halt routine operations for other patients, they said. [sounds like the hospitals in the American Southwest]
The consultants said that the surge in people arriving with HIV accounted for most of the recent rise in infection rates, and reported that there was evidence that they were infecting Britons by engaging in unsafe sex.
A Commons health select committee report last week estimated that the figures for new HIV cases last year would more than double at 6,500. It also revealed that the rates of infection for other sexually transmitted diseases had spiralled out of control, with cases of syphilis up 500 per cent in six years.
Dr Tim Moss, the clinical director and consultant genito-urinary physician at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, told The Telegraph that politicians underestimated the problem and the huge resources needed to treat HIV patients from sub-Saharan African countries, the Far East and India....