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On August 16 last year, a woman in her 40s was forcibly detained and placed in the police immigration internment for deportation to Ethiopia. The woman had various health problems when she was arrested.
– In Trandum, the woman was getting worse and worse. The county governor is now declaring that the woman did not receive adequate medical care, says André Møkkelgjerd, a lawyer for the Sulland law firm, and that he helps the second-hand woman more.
– Medical coercion
When the woman was detained at Trandum, she used two medications and an asthma inhaler.
– But at Trandum I got a lot of new drugs, which I said I didn’t want. They gave me twelve medicines and they should not be used together. The medication affected me very negatively, with new pain and my swollen legs, the woman told Dagbladet today.
The woman complained about the new drug to a lawyer and supporters. They called a doctor to verify that the treatment received by the woman was adequate.
– He wasn’t even allowed to bring a stethoscope. When we learn later that she did not receive adequate medical care, it is highly reprehensible that, as a prisoner of her liberty, she was denied access to health supervision from outside. Trandum’s medical services have come under fire for several years, says the lawyer.
The Police Immigration Unit (PU) writes to Dagbladet that “we take note of the county governor’s assessment,” according to Johan-Edvin Throndsen, section chief of the police immigration internship (more answers later in the case ).
– The courts are failing
Lawyer Møkkelgjerd believes that he has failed in many cases when it comes to treating Ethiopian women. Not only “have the Police Immigration Unit (PU), the Trandum immigration internship and the medical service failed,” according to the lawyer. He believes that the courts have also ruled. Møkkelgjerd points out that the district court wanted to release the woman from the duty to inform, but that the appeal court approved the continuation of the detention. The Supreme Court also rejected the appeal.
– The courts must control that no one is detained in violation of human rights. This case is just one of many examples in which the courts assume that people with health problems receive adequate care at Trandum, despite indications to the contrary, says lawyer Møkkelgjerd.
For the Ethiopian woman, the four-month stay has been a terrible experience.
– Most Norwegians should know how terrible people are treated at Trandum. I said no to various medications, but I had to take them. My legs swelled up and burned my head and body, he tells Dagbladet and continues:
– The medicine made me different and scared me. I screamed several times and then they left me alone in a basement for several days. The months in prison were inhumane and Norway treated me like an animal. Most Norwegians are fine and need to know.
Daniel Drageset, communications advisor for the Police Immigration Unit, wants to emphasize that “no one at the Trandum immigration internship is in basements.”
New case of supervision against the health service in Trandum
Will seek compensation
The woman is today in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
– She was in a very difficult situation when they sent her home, and now it is even worse because there is war in the country. People are dying and she does not have a permanent place to live or anyone who can help her with medicine, says an Ethiopian friend who lives in Norway.
– I lived in Norway for ten years and never did anything wrong. Still, I was forcibly sent home, like a criminal. The months in Trandum made me very sick and now I no longer have access to medicine. They cost too much, says the woman herself.
Lawyer Møkkelgjerd is concerned about the state of women’s health today and will demand compensation and reparation for the woman.
– You have the right to reparation for the human rights violations you suffered in Trandum. If PU does not offer to compensate her, a lawsuit will be filed for violation of the European Commission on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Constitution. Hopefully a replacement will make your life a little better by giving you advice on medications and a place to live, he says.
– I’m sorry
Dagbladet asks PU if they regret that the woman has not received adequate health treatment during the four months of stay at Trandum.
– No, but we obviously noted the criticism from the county governor and will take it with us in the subsequent run of the immigration boarding, says Throndsen.
– What about compensation?
– To our knowledge, we have not received a claim for compensation, says Throndsen.
– It is far from being the first time that the health service of the Police Immigration Center has been criticized. Thinking of changing your medical service? Dagbladet wonders.
– PU is open to the health services of the immigration internship attached to the municipal health service. We also remind you that when the Ministry of Health and Care Services considered such a scheme in 2017, it concluded that there is no opening to transfer health services to the public sector. We relate to the current arrangement with Legetjenester A / S, says Throndsen.
TRACING: Johan-Edvin Throndsen, section chief of the police immigration internship, will take further criticism of the health service in the operation and take a closer look at the agreement with Legetjenester A / S. Photo: PU
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Homeless
The woman in her 40s is now homeless in Ethiopia, which is now experiencing war. Live by grace around you, with friends. You can’t afford asthma, high blood pressure, and cholesterol medications. He received it from the Norwegian Undocumented Health Center.
– I experience a lot of stress and it is very difficult. Especially after four months on Trandum, which made me much sicker. It was very difficult for me that Norway sent me like this. More ill and like a criminal, says the woman.
Constant criticism
Health services in Trandum are regularly debated and criticized. The county governor of Oslo and Viken also opened a supervisory case against Trandum, when Iraqi Imad died while confined to Trandum for a long time.
Earlier, the county governor’s section chief Stein Jøssang informed Dagbladet that they have “six registered supervisory cases against the health service in Trandum registered since January 1, 2019.”
The patient and user ombudsman became involved in the Ethiopian woman’s case.
Imad (57) died in Trandum
– No comment
Legetjenester AS operates the health service in Trandum. Both the doctor Gunnar Fæhn and the company have received criticism on several occasions.
Among other things, for the deportation of an unconscious woman from Trondheim to Istanbul last summer. Fæhn has repeatedly criticized asylum and immigration applicants, and has previously complained to the Norwegian Medical Association.
-I have very bad experience with journalists and I do not want to comment, says Fæhn to Dagbladet.
FACTS: – NOT SUITABLE HEALTHY
- The woman is 40 years old, from Ethiopia, and came to Norway as an asylum seeker around 2008.
- The woman was detained in Trandum on August 16 and was returned to Ethiopia on December 11.
- The county governor has concluded that PU has failed to provide the woman with adequate medical care.
- The county governor requires that “PU and health personnel organize business according to their conclusion” in the future.
- The woman is currently in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, but she has no permanent residence and her health is poor.
