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Family fighting to end inhumane NHS charging for migrants wins major award
Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London

A FAMILY battling the government’s inhumane system of charging migrants extortionate amounts for NHS care has won a major national award.

The Justice for Omisha campaign received the Sheila McKechnie Foundation’s David & Goliath award today.

Omisha Shrestha was just 10 months old when she was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer.

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