The Home Office and its contractors failed to tell asylum seekers on board the Bibby Stockholm barge to avoid the water due to the presence of potentially fatal legionella until after the news emerged in the media, it has been claimed. singharj reports
until after the news emerged in the media, it has been claimed.
Care4Calais said some people on board the barge in Portland Port, Dorset, first found about the bacteria scare from the charity, who phoned migrants they had been working with after seeing the story reported in the media around Friday lunchtime. Steve Smith, the charity’s chief executive, said it was “shocking” that the Government appeared to be prioritising “spin” over “the welfare of those on board”., after the news broke around lunchtime.: “We were talking to people on board Bibby after the news broke… at that stage they hadn’t been told.
“At that stage the Home Office issued an announcement saying that advice and guidance and support to those on board was their highest priority. “We were thinking: hang on, it’s not their highest priority is it because actually getting the information out seemed to be the highest priority because we were speaking to people who hadn’t been told there was anything wrong.He went on: “At the point where the Government publicity has said support, advice, guidance to those on board ‘is our highest priority’, they had not at that stage told them not to drink the water, not to take showers or not to wash in the water.
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