Scots surgeon says NHS 'would not survive' without immigrants

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A leading surgeon turned MP has warned the NHS would collapse without an immigrant workforce because they are imbedded in its DNA.Dr Zubir Ahmed - whose taxi driver dad moved from Pakistan to Scotland in 1963 - won the Glasgow South West seat for Labour in July and has been tipped for fast promotion to a ministerial role.

He has continued performing lifesaving operations during parliamentary recess and highlighted a kidney transplant last week in with his entire team of medics were immigrants or the children of immigrants.He said: “There is frankly no debate to be had that without immigration the NHS would not survive.

It is no coincidence that the health service was founded in 1948, the same year Empire Windrush came to the shores of Britain.“Immigrants have been in the DNA of the NHS from the day it was formed and without them the NHS would be in existential crisis.“I did a kidney transplant at 10pm on Thursday night.

My team consisted of myself, a second generation Pakistani, my anaesthetist was a second generation person from the Indian sub-continent, my assistant was a Catholic Scot and my scrub nurse was Bulgarian.“So you tell me how I could have done that kidney transplant without immigrant populations coming to this country over the last 50 years with their huge talents and we are benefiting from their talents every day.“Immigrants by and large are coming here to enrich our society and are making public services functional.“I am quite happy to have a debate about how they should come, when they should come, in what form they should come and the stresses some services could be placed under - but please don’t suggest burning the car of a care worker in Middlesbrough is a valid part of that debate.“And to all the