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Cancer sufferer’s only hope dashed

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Cancer sufferer’s only hope dashed as brothers are barred from UK
Three brothers have been barred from Britain despite being their sister’s only hope.

Fatemeh Mehdipour, 42, has undergone three aggressive courses of chemotherapy since she was diagnosed with the incurable cancer in June.

Her siblings Nader, Naser and Esmaeil are the closest surgical matches to the patient but they have all been refused visas to fly to Britain from Iraq.

The Home Office said it was ‘not satisfied’ they would be ‘genuine visitors’ and feared they would seek to stay in Britain after their visas expired.

The dying mother-of-two said: ‘I am just waiting for this transplant. I need this transplant.

‘I could not believe it. I just hope the Embassy can get them the visas.

‘When I think about my situation, how can I relax and concentrate on my chemotherapy? It is not easy.

Mrs Mehdipour’s devastated daughter Azar, 24, said: ‘We were all so positive, and thought mum would be having her transplant.

‘Everyone is so angry – she will die if she doesn’t get this transplant. She needs it within four weeks.

‘The chance of us finding an unrelated donor is almost zero – there is a real shortage of Middle-Eastern donors.

‘I can’t describe what we have been going through.

‘When my mother asks me if she is going to die, it kills me inside and out.’

Fatemeh, who lives in Solihull, West Mids., moved to the Britain 12 years ago. Her husband Habib, 51, and a wholesale retailer, said: ‘It is so hard for somebody to undergo chemotherapy anyway but I do not personally think she can bare with it. It is so hard for us.’

Her brothers applied to visit the UK for 15 days at the British Embassy in Turkey.

But their applications were rejected despite doctors at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, where Fatemeh is receiving treatment, vouching for them.

Consultant haemotologist Dr Bhuvan Kishore wrote to the embassy saying: ‘In order to cure her leukaemia she is in need of a bone marrow transplant; without it she may die.

‘It is imperative you allow her siblings to travel to the UK to have further testing to establish which one is likely to be the best donor for her.

‘Fatemeh has an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukaemia which is incurable without a transplant.

‘She is lucky enough to have three siblings who are a match.

‘But they need to donate stem cells as soon as possible so she can proceed with a potentially curable treatment.’

Yet, astonishingly, an immigration officer told the brothers in a letter: ‘I am not satisfied you are a genuine visitor to the United Kingdom or that you intend to leave the United Kingdom on completion of your proposed visit.’

Do you think the brothers should be allowed into the UK?
 
With so many people pouring into Britain, both legally and illegally, to bar someone who has a genuine reason to visit seems more than a little pedantic.
 

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