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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maya Oppenheim

‘Most vulnerable women I’ve seen’: Pregnant migrants in Home Office hotel struggling to access healthcare

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The health of pregnant asylum seekers living in a Home Office hotel is at risk because of the difficulty they face accessing medical services, campaigners and local midwives have warned.

Frontline workers supporting mothers-to-be and women with newborns living at the Novotel Hotel in Stevenage said some were forced to walk for miles in their slippers and without coats days before their babies were due to get basic supplies.

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