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Wladyslaw Haniszewski was at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey when he suffered a stroke that left him comatose. However, when hospital staff learned he was an undocumented immigrant from Poland, the stroke victim was deported to his native country -- while unconscious.
According to The New York Daily News, Polish officials were furious when they received the 69-year-old Polish immigrant under the circumstances.
"Imagine being carted around like a sack of potatoes," Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, Poland's consul general in New York, told the outlet.
Haniszewski, though undocumented and uninsured, had resided in the New Jersey town of Perth Amboy for the better part of 30 years. He was previously admitted to the New Brunswick hospital by a friend for symptoms relating to his blood disease before he suffered a stroke this month.
When Haniszewski finally awoke, he found himself at a hospital in Boleslawiec. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital had deported the stroke victim to Poland without first obtaining his consent, Polish newspaper Nowy Dziennik reports.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/stroke-victim-deported-unconscious-poland-immigrant_n_3505321.html
This is wrong in so many ways I don't even know where to start.
I guess 'First Do No Harm' has been stricken.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)This is deplorable.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)I can't even believe the way we treat animals let alone people citizens or otherwise.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)I recall these rights were forfeit to save us from another 9/11.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)drdtroit
(1,625 posts)Blue Palasky
(81 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)The incredible hostility directed at anyone who is perceived as "other" in any way now seems so common place it is remarkable only that it is still reported.
NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts)and this is such a mindless, soulless action on the part of the fucking hospital. They should be sued.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)They see this as something like shoplifting or stealing, i.e. taking services without any ability to pay. In their mind it would be like a homeless person going to a 5 star restaurant, then ordering. Someone has to pay, and now states won't.
lbrtbell
(2,389 posts)alstephenson
(2,415 posts)A Catholic hospital, St. Joseph's, is the most notorious for this type of thing.