The following is translated from Portuguese.
GOIÁS :
Goiano hospitalized with liver cirrhosis in London asks for help to return to Brazil and to try liver transplantation.
Fábio Martins dos Santos’s family, 28, says he can not get help from the Brazilian government, nor from English, and he does not know what to do.
The deliveryman Fábio Martins dos Santos, 28, hospitalized with liver cirrhosis at a London hospital, struggles to be transferred to Brazil and try to perform a liver transplant. His family is from Goiás, and says he can not get the Brazilian consulate and the British government to help solve the case.
According to the Goian’s wife, Loiane Martins, 30, Fabio is hospitalized in a very serious condition and the only alternative for his treatment is transplantation. However, the British government does not carry out the procedure on irregular aliens and the consulate has informed her that she can not afford the costs of the transfer which, she says, can only be made by an air ambulance.
“We are desperate, we do not have anything else to do. If we can not go back to Brazil and do this transplant urgently, he will die. The doctors said that the only chance for him to survive is to try the transplant, which can only be done in Brazil. He can only leave the hospital accompanied by doctors and equipment, and the Brazilian government says it can not do anything, “he told the G1 .
The Itamaraty informed the G1 by telephone that there are no legal forms of the Brazilian government to bear the costs of the transfer, but that it is following the case to help the family find a solution. He also said that the English laws do not allow the Itamaraty to have access to the patient’s medical records.
Fábio is admitted to the North Middlesex University Hospital in London. According to Loiane, the husband has the MELD calculated at 29. The classification is the scoring system for assessing the severity of chronic liver disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), when the index reaches 30, the patient has 80% risk of dying if he can not transplant.
“With this level of commitment, he has priority in transplantation. He’s already in the transplant queue in Brazil, we’re getting him to do the procedure in Recife, but we just can not get out of here, there’s no way. We can not afford this air ambulance transfer, “he said.
The G1 contacted the North Middlesex University Hospital at 2:51 pm but was told by telephone that the unit is not authorized to pass on any information about a patient.
Searching for a dream
Fábio moved alone to England in February this year. He had just taken office as a military police officer in Minas Gerais, but decided to give up his career and try to live abroad. Living in London, he began to work as a delivery man and to make other beaks to guarantee his livelihood, his wife and daughter, who had stayed in Goiás.
According to Loiane, in July of this year the husband began to feel bad. After doing some blood tests, the doctors suspected autoimmune hepatitis or anemia, and passed the medication to him. However, he did not improve, he stayed for 11 days in the Royal Free London, a philanthropic hospital of the NHS Foundation Trust.
In August, doctors gave the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis and that he would only have a chance of surviving if he was transplanted.
“We are desperate. Until then he was fine, but there he had this complication, probably an evolution of that hepatitis he had. Except that he left the hospital in August, being able to work, after doing drainage, to take a liquid from the belly. Then his case complicated a lot, “he said.
Loiane went to London with her daughter in early October, intending to live in the city. She says that in recent days, her husband’s medical condition has been complicated, until they have no other solution to try to save him than to return to Brazil.
“A few days ago, the belly grew, and the eyes turned very yellow. He started to get ascites, which is that belly of water. The situation is desperate and we have no one for us, we even got a ticket, but we can not go back, because his case, now, can only be by air ambulance, and I can not go back and leave him here, “he said.
The woman says she has approached Casa Brasil, a voluntary institution that offers the Voluntary Return Program to those who are in an irregular situation in the United Kingdom and who wish to return to Brazil. Loiane got the tickets for her, her husband and daughter to return to the country, but on separate flights.
“I was very grateful, very happy when we got these tickets. Only, first, he is in serious condition and can only be transferred in an air ambulance. And second, even if he could travel on a commercial flight, he could not travel alone, unaccompanied, since the flights we get are separated. We are in great distress, not knowing what to do, “said Loiane.
The G1 contacted the Goiás Government Office of International Affairs, which informed by note that the government was unaware of the case, due to the fact that the family did not seek it, but that there is no legislation that allows granting the air tickets for transfer purposes (see the full note below) .
Marcelo Ros Castilho, 33, is also a friend of Fábio and has mobilized on social networks in search of help for Goiano.
“Doctors will only authorize Fábio to leave here for Brazil in an air ambulance. He is having a good treatment of the doctors, he is accompanied by the staff of nurses very well, but we do not know to what extent the British hospitals will be able help us, because we can not give him, so we have been legally told to do the transplant here, he needs to go to Brazil, “he said.
Positioning of the State Government:
“The family did not find us reason why this Cabinet was unaware of the case.
Regarding the request for the granting of air tickets, we inform that under the terms of State Law 17.107 / 2010, the State grants the family members of Goiás victims abroad, when demonstrated the financial hyposufficiency, the possibility of promoting the cremation and repatriation of ashes, the only State in Brazil to have such a program.
As for other means of returning to Brazil, we suggest that contact be made with Casa do Brasil in London, which coordinates its own program, while ignoring the maintenance of the program and eventual variables as indicated below.
Casa do Brasil in London, with the partnership of the Home Office, offers the Volunteer Return Program to those who are in an irregular situation in the United Kingdom and who wish to return with dignity to Brazil. The service is free, guarantees right to luggage, is valid for the whole family. There is also the possibility of issuing tickets, even for those who have valid tourist visa. ”
h/t Val
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/hah-hah-president-trump-trolls-kim-jong-un-try-hard-friend/
Convert to islam. The money to pay for this will be in the bank the next morning.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/conservative-sitcom-star-hints-child-sex-trafficking-bombshell-trump-knows-lots-people-will-become-woke-fck-week/
Bob, you’re linking a story we just posted earlier.
This is a sad situation all around. My condolances to his family and my prayer to God that he provides a solution. What about a military flight? Surely there are flights from Brazil to Europe, even Britain at least monthly.
Bill Brazil up front, surgery in England.
He heals, he leaves.
This is a forewarning of what’s to come in california.
****According to Loiane, the husband has the MELD calculated at 29. The classification is the scoring system for assessing the severity of chronic liver disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), when the index reaches 30, the patient has 80% risk of dying if he can not transplant.*****
When I was diagnosed with cirrhosis…my MELD score was 39.83 I am truly a miracle to be alive.
MELD = Model for End-of-Life Liver Disease. Scale is 0 – 40
Thank You Lord. Every day I see the sunlight is a gift to me.
I’m confused.
He had a new job in Brazil as a military police officer, but just up and left his wife and kids to become an “irregular alien” (is that an illegal alien?) to Britain working as a deliveryman?
Now he’s effectively being held prisoner in a British hospital who will neither treat him via transplant nor will allow him to leave except by air ambulance?
And there is no government money allocated in Brazil or Britain to pay for this kind of transportion?
Rock, meet hard place.
Used to be you could get to England and get free Medical and Dental after a stay of 3 days. I knew an Italian guy who bragged about it – got his teeth fixed on the English taxpayers’ dime (or … uh … shilling).
I never heard that it changed (maybe he didn’t either).
izlamo delenda est …
Were he a 17 yo girl from Guatemala wanting an abortion, eazy peezy, cross the border, sue the US and you’re good to go.
Yes, “irregular alien” means illegal alien.
@Janitor; they do treat him but they won’t transplant him I suspect because there are worse actual citizens on the list ahead of him.
@Janitor; they do treat him but they won’t transplant him I suspect because they won’t do these transplants on irregular aliens (not sure what that means, possibly illegal?),
isn’t it the UK-London that wouldn’t allow the little baby to come here for surgery that could have saved its life? This kid should have read the news before he left all in Brazil to go to London for help. 🙁
Thank you, MJA, for picking up this story.
Yesterday, I went through all kinds of emotions reading it.
-I was mad at him for leaving his country even after being accepted to work at the Police. As dangerous as it is to be a Police Officer in Brazil, at least it was a job he’d have, a “luxury” that has been denied to 13 million people over there after they had their romance with socialism via ex president Lula da Silva and his continuation, Dilma Rousseff;
-I couldn’t understand why his wife and kid went there, instead of bringing him home, after learning of his disease.
Then I was mad at the UK system. They’re allowing more and more illegal immigrants to get in, but clearly they can’t afford. That situation contradicts exactly what they, especially the mayor of London, want to brag about and criticize the USA, immigration and health care system.
When did they learn about his illegal status? Do they ask people about it in the hospitals? Are they ***gasps*** profiling?
Then, I started looking at the human side. Theirs is a dire situation. The only thing I can do is to pray, and make others aware of it. I have no idea who they are, but I know how it’s to be in a strange country.
I’ve never been to Europe, but I have a feeling that people over there are not as friendly as the American people, at least the ones I was blessed to interact with here.