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ACTIVISTS demonstrated in Sheffield at the weekend in support of an asylum-seeker landed with a £93,000 bill for NHS treatment after suffering a stroke.
On Saturday a “carnival of resistance” was staged in the city demanding that the bill given to Zimbabwean Simba Mujakachi be written off, that the government stop charging asylum-seekers for NHS treatment and that it ends its “hostile environment” policy.
Supporters of the 31-year-old, who came to Britain as a teenager when his father fled Robert Mugabe’s regime, say that if he had received NHS treatment when he needed it, he may not have suffered the stroke.
They have launched a Justice for Simba campaign, and a petition has attracted nearly 70,000 signatures.
Saturday’s event included music, dancing and singing.
Aliya Yule of the Migrants Organise campaign said: “Simba’s campaign is about more than scrapping the charges for his own treatment, it’s a fight for the heart and soul of the NHS, for migrant justice, and for truly universal public services.”
