Letters
Death of an asylum seeker
“Do no harm” was forgotten in death of asylum seeker
BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6051 (Published 21 October 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l6051
- Piotr Szawarski, consultant in intensive care medicine
- Wexham Park Hospital, Slough SL2 4HL, UK
- piotr.szawarski{at}nhs.net
I read about the death of an asylum seeker with sadness.1 Asylum seekers are refugees. The United Nations says that a refugee is a person who “owing to well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, …
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