Death of asylum seeker with heart condition should be 'clarion call' for reforms

The death of an asylum seeker with a serious heart condition just weeks after his transfer from Dublin to Cork without medical notes should act as “a clarion call” to the Government that reforms of the asylum system haven’t gone far enough.

And NASC, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre, which was supporting the man and his wife in the weeks before his death, is also warning that a similar tragedy could happen again because “vulnerability assessments” for asylum seekers, which were enshrined in law last June, have not been introduced.