French 73-year-old ‘put through three months of hell’ by NHS trying to prove she’s lived in the UK for over 50 years
A 73 -year -old boy, After NHS challenged the right to live in the UK and sent him a charges for a routine health appointment.
Soisic Calland, a French citizen, has been living in Scunthorpe for nearly 45 years and has long -term residence in the UK. Although he had three children at the Scunthorpe General Hospital, he said that he was questioned by a rheumatology advisor in April this year and he was questioned by the staff about the status of immigration.
He was a little pain and was waiting to be seen by a doctor when he was called by a manager worker and explained that he questioned his visa status. “I was almost in tears and I was very close to going out.
“I was taken to a corner and I suffered and was told to be questioned. The hospital employee didn’t ask him for the documents. He felt determined to pay me”.
The hospital said that they do not accept this definition of MS Calllard’s interactions with personnel and that they prove their suitability to release NHS care.
Mrs. Callard said that she provided her The biometric residence card given to EU citizens living in the UK through the Windrush program since 1989. Foreign nationals who have settled in England, such as MS Calllard, have the right to release NHS care.
After the transition to digital visas at the end of last year, Mrs. Calllard established an online UKVI account used to demonstrate the immigration status in the UK.
The hospital wanted to see a Council tax bill after Brexit in 2021, but at the beginning he would not accept the bill of his husband. Full Council tax invoices are based on at least two adults living at home, and spouses living together are responsible for paying the invoice.
He said that when he returned home from the appointment, he stole his local councils to help. “The Council could not understand what we wanted and why the hospital wanted. But they took us to the election registration department, which was useful and proved that I have been at our home address since 2016.
“However, this was rejected. [a card provided by the NHS to UK residents to allow them to access emergency treatment in Europe]. I couldn’t get any home bill when I was in my husband’s name.
“Nothing was good enough. At that time I sent a proforma bill for £ 536.02 in August. I couldn’t understand what I was accused of. It was very threatening.
“Then suddenly, after all, the Council accepted the tax bill.”
Proforma invoice, “Payment immediately payment,” he said, but “final costs [are] He added that “the hospital took action to save unpaid debt” and warned that the unpaid debt may affect future immigration applications.
The hospital said that they sent a proforma invoice when they did not receive the relevant documents confirming the suitability for free NHS treatment. They said that national politics required patients to show the ordinary residence evidence in the UK, and that the Council’s tax bill was able to confirm this after a letter from the council.
Callard said it caused stress back and forth. “I had endless sleepless nights. My blood pressure rose. I felt like I didn’t want it in England. I had three months of hell and I don’t want anyone to pass the same thing.
Mrs. Callard, a French passport, said that he did not apply for the British passport, because he cost thousands of pounds to become an British citizen he did not want to spend his retirement money.
“He was very sad for my husband and me because we were wondering what would happen every day and what threats we would have”.
A spokesman for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust said: uz We follow the strict rules specified in the overseas charging regulations of the Ministry of Health, we have to legally follow to get NHS maintenance.
Andreea Dumitrache, a 3 million group of civil rights, said: “No one should be stuck in a way that makes it possible to avoid a fundamental, despite the obvious legal residence, despite the obvious legal residence, with this harassment or health denial in the country they call their homes.
“This is an embarrassing example of how the enemy environment continues to harm what needs to be protected. We call on the government and institutions such as NHS to apply appropriate training and accountability, so that we no longer be treated as second -class EU citizens.”
