G224. MEDICAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS FACED BY ASYLUM SEEKING CHILDREN WHOSE ASYLUM APPEALS ARE NOT ACCEPTED: ETHICAL AND LEGAL DILEMMA

B. Yuksel, K. Withana.

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Department of Paediatrics, The Ridgeway, Enfield, London EN2 8JL

During the past decade, an increased number of children and families have applied for political asylum in UK. We wish to present four children who faced major medical emotional problems and required hospital admissions provoking ethical/legal discussions.

Objective: To highlight the problems these children faced and assess the possible ways of helping them.

Methods: Four children/young persons appealing for asylum in UK were admitted to the General Paediatric ward recently with major medical problems.

Patients: First two children were siblings from Pakistan, 2 and 3 years of age with severe undiagnosed neuro-developmental disorders, learning and feeding difficulties and Epilepsy. …