Paralysed Swedish girl ‘blocked from returning home by red tape’
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Swedish girl left paralysed after a motorbike accident has been stranded in a London hospital for greater than a yr after her residence nation refused to allow her return.
Her husband has described the scenario as “shameful” as he continues to attraction for her return, in accordance with The Guardian.
The 52-year-old polling firm government had been dwelling in London for greater than 25 years when she sustained a extreme mind damage from hitting her head on the pavement after coming off her bike final March.
She has spent the previous yr being moved between a sequence of intensive care models and specialist remedy centres.
The mom of a 12 year-old son is now in a high-dependency unit in a London hospital however her husband desires her to be nearer to her mom and three siblings.
But as a result of she has lived out of Sweden for thus lengthy she has fallen off the nation’s official inhabitants register and can’t be thought-about eligible for care in its system.
Her husband has reportedly been informed he can current paperwork to get her relisted as resident in Sweden on her behalf, however solely when his spouse, who can not stroll or speak, is bodily within the nation.
But the NHS can not switch her to the Swedish healthcare system as a result of hospitals there can not obtain a affected person who just isn’t on the inhabitants register.
The household’s native MP who represents Dulwich and West Norwood, Labour’s Helen Hayes, stated the case was “shocking”.
She informed The Guardian: “Karin’s accident was a terrible tragedy which is devastating for Karin and her family. She is currently trapped between two wholly incompatible and inflexible systems.
“This impasse is compounding the family’s suffering… we need basic compassion from all sides.”
The letter stated: “As this is truly an exceptional case, this will require exceptional actions by both the UK government and the Swedish government, as well as by the NHS and Swedish health professionals.”
Her husband believes many different emigrants from Sweden will probably be unaware of the implications of falling off the inhabitants register.
He stated: “I’ve been with Karin a long time and been to Sweden many times and I was under the impression that Sweden was a compassionate western liberal democracy.
“I am very down about this. I feel this is shameful. Karin is very Swedish and, in many ways, she really loves her country and loves to go back and spend summers there. We had been making plans to retire there in the next year or so and the fact that they’ve so severely let her down is quite awful,” he added.
He has written to 349 MPs on the Riksdag (parliament) in Sweden. He received a reply from just one, who expressed his sympathy however stated he was unable to resolve the scenario.
An Foreign Commonwealth and Devlopment Office stated: “We are supporting the family of a British-Swedish dual national.”