AMSTERDSM (Sunatimes) Somali migrant woman has died in Netherlands’ central
province of Utrecht on Wednesday because of carelessness, reports say on Thursday.
According to the local TV channel (RTV Utrecht), Sahro Barre
Mohamed, 32 who had three-month pregnancy died in center for the asylum seekers
in Leersum town of Utrecht province after she lacked urgent medical care.
“The woman has been sick for many days and the click
department nurses in the center have been reluctant to assist and let her into
the main hospital and the security staff also rejected to call an ambulance and
then she has passed away.” One of the Somali asylum seekers told Utrecht TV.
“They treat us like animal. They don’t give us respect so I would
suggest to the government to take this case of death into consideration.” Another
refugee man said angrily.
There has been wide-raging anger by the local government in
Utrecht over the death of the Somali woman as the authorities blamed the officials
of the refugee center for neglecting the woman’s life.
The leader of the Groenlinks party Femke Halsema expressed
her deepest sorrow over the death of the Somali woman and asked for inquiry on
this case.
According to the latest figure by the Netherlands Immigration
Department, around 23,000 Somali refugees live in the country as 9,000 of that
number are being held in centers for the asylum seekers that spread in the
Netherlands regions.
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Somali refugee woman dies for recklessness in Netherlands
a pregnant Somali woman died in Netherlands for lack of care.