What a fascinating part time job I have. On Thursday last I was shown round the reception centre for asylum seekers in Wakefield. It is called Angel Lodge. Well over 100 adults and children are accommodated there. They are resident there for up to three weeks and a doctor does a session there each day. Health screening is the main thing. They are free to come and go and some abscond. I sat in the foyer for 10 minutes waiting to meet Fiona (who manages the medical side). What a mix of languages and people from all classes and walks of life. There was a case of diarrhoea last week that caused a great panick. If that spread into the town there could have been a riot. The health workers there have to use telephone interpreters. The screening at airports etc. is not that brilliant, I was told. A man in a wheelchair was just waved through, for example.
This week I am visiting New Hall prison to look at the medical set up thee. I have never been in a prison, so another interesting venture for me.
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