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Boy diagnosed with leukaemia in UK denied NHS treatment unless parents pay £825,000
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dailyrecord.co.ukdiagnosed with leukaemia on a medical trip to the UK could die within days unless his family stump up £825,000 for treatment.
Little Nathaniel Nabena, 9, who had his left eye removed in home country Nigeria because of cancer, came to the UK to have a £5,000 prosthetic replacement fitted privately in November.However, shortly before treatment he began to suffer nosebleeds and a fever.He was diagnosed with rare acute myeloid leukaemia at South London’s Croydon University Hospital.Nathaniel now desperately needs treatment but his family are being asked to pay the huge sum before he can be given a stem cell transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, reports the Mirror.Patients from non-EU countries are charged 150% of the NHS national tariff.
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