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Canaries 'facing migrant crisis'
Spain's Canary Islands can no longer cope with the soaring number of illegal immigrants arriving from Africa, local leaders say.
Regional government chief Adan Martin called on the Spanish authorities in Madrid to form an emergency cabinet and provide more aid.
He told Spanish radio 16,400 African migrants had arrived in makeshift boats since the beginning of the year.
This number is more than three times higher than for the whole of 2005.
"We're on red alert and can't carry on taking responsibility for accommodation and medical care of immigrants," Mr Martin told Cadena Ser radio station.
"Everything has a limit, and every time it gets nearer. In some areas I think we've already reached it."
Patrols
His appeal follows a recent visit to the islands by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who praised the way the local administration was handling the problem.
The EU plans to launch maritime patrols around the Canaries and along the West African coast to help limit the flow of migrants.
Mr Martin said that even with reinforced patrols, the plan was insufficient "to monitor such a large zone in Africa, where we know there are an enormous number of people who want to come to Europe and Spain via the Canaries".
In response, a European Commission spokesperson said that everything possible was being done to help, but the crisis would not be solved overnight.
Mr Martin has called on Madrid to set up a "crisis cell" made up of the ministries of interior, foreign affairs and defence among others to tackle the problem.
The long and dangerous journey to the Canaries from Mauritania has in recent months become the favoured route to the European Union for migrants from Africa.
Nearly 400 people were intercepted on Wednesday alone, the AFP news agency quoted rescue services as saying. Another 100 people were found in boats off the coast on Thursday.
Earlier this month, sunbathers on a Tenerife beach came to the aid of 88 exhausted African migrants - among 205 who reached the islands on three open boats - making headlines around the world.
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Coming to the USA for asylum, medicare, SSI for her and her offspring, special ed, food stamps, section 8 housing and perhaps a speakiing tour!!
Nigeria's 'dead women walking'
By Jane Elliott
BBC News health reporter
When Binta Ahmed prepared to have her baby at home, she was not expecting any problems.
She had already given birth to five children, and the 28-year-old had no reason to expect this birth would be any different.
For seven days she laboured on the floor of her hut in Nigeria, but she was unable to give birth.
Her baby was eventually born dead. Her relatives were extremely worried as Binta had no energy to move.
Embarrassment
Then she started to leak urine and faeces.
She could not walk, but her family managed to bundle her to a local clinic.
Doctors there said she needed to get to hospital immediately and her family braced themselves for the two-day trip to Kano.
These women were dead women walking: physically, socially and psychologically
Dr Gloria Esegbona
Doctors diagnosed an obstetric fistula, an injury, where the pressures of childbirth leads to a hole - or fistula - between the bladder or rectum.
UK doctor Gloria Esegbona, a specialist in treating fistulas, said that by the time they saw Binta she was in extremely poor shape.
"It took her family a day or two to get her to hospital. The journey... had been agony for her as her injuries were so terrible.
"When she lifted her skirt up to show us, she had a huge pressure sore where she had been sitting. It was from the skin to the bone.
"Where she was sitting was all wet with urine and faeces."
She also had 'foot drop' in both legs - another pregnancy-related injury, where the muscles are left weakened and the toes droop downward impeding the normal walking motion.
Surgery
Binta was in too poor a condition for immediate extensive surgery so she was patched up and sent to a local rehabilitation centre to recuperate. She stayed there for months while awaiting surgery.
She was finally operated on three months later by Kees Waaldijk, a world expert in fistula repair who has helped more than 16,000 women.
It took her months after the operation to regain her full control of her continence.
Her other injuries such as foot drop have taken longer to resolve.
Many women with fistulas are ostracised by their community because of their incontinence, and a large number are divorced by their husbands and left with no means of supporting themselves.
'Ostracised from society'
Dr Rahmat Hassan Mohammad, who founded the Foundation for Women's Health, Research and Development (FORWARD), where Binta is recuperating, said they treat about 30 women a year.
Each of the women stays an average of 10 months at the centre in Dambatta, Kano.
When they are allowed home they are given a gift of either animals or materials to enable them to earn a living in their own community.
Dr Mohammad explained; "We give these women economic empowerment and get them back into their community where they have been ostracized from society."
Dr Esegbona explained that Nigeria has one of the highest fistula prevalence rates in Africa.
As many as 800,000 women have the condition and there are another 20,000 new cases each year.
In Nigeria, a woman has a one in 18 lifetime risk of dying from complication of childbirth - in Europe that figure is one in 2,400.
She was so horrified by the statistics in the country of her origin that she resolved to go back there, to work on reducing the numbers of women with the condition.
"I was shocked by how much suffering these women endured. They were so scarred and so damaged."
"These women were dead women walking: physically, socially and psychologically. Many of them lose their babies in childbirth and have no hope of having another. "
Education work
Dr Esegbona makes extensive trips back to Nigeria and funds them working as a locum doctor in the UK.
She explained that she and her colleagues not only work on repairing the fistulas where possible, but they also spent much time trying to educate the women and their families about how to avoid them happening in the first place.
She said much of the emphasis has been on the fact that many of the women marry early or are illiterate, but she stressed there also needed to be access to quality emergency obstetric care.
"There is no point empowering a women, for instance with education, if she is only going to die anyway because she has no care available to her."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/5106190.stmPublished: 2006/08/18 23:55:11 GMT
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The above posts show that if we continue on this path of letting the third world into our country they will turn our homeland into the one that the liberals rescused them from. As sunnyside and cjd have pointed out our parks cannot be used, we are held prisoners in our homes at night which are not safe do to the blacks newest invention, home invasions, we are unable to ride a clean subway or look out of an unscratched bus window, cannot send our children to school, can't let them go out to play, can't let them go to the movies, dances, school activities, ride in cars safely due to 'road rage', apply for a job due to affrimative action, go to a college that they chose, who to live next to, who to rent to, who to hire, be called a racist for standing up for OUR RIGHTS, unable to gain any type of help from pandering officals, have black myths crammed down our throats, see ourselves portrayed on tv as fools, bigots and heterophobic sissies. I see no end in this. They will be a majority soon and if you can believe this that White Jew hater charles barron of the city consul wants to grant the illegals the right to vote. Knowing our politicians this final blow will become a reality.
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Dear sunnyside,
It is true what you say about black Ph.Ds. I can say as far as NY State is concerned the overwheming majority recieve their doctorates in education. This covers a lot of ground. I remember that betty shabazz recieved her Ph.D in 'school adminstration'. Shabazz was the widow of malcolm excrement. She held a do nothing job at medger evers city college in brooklyn ny. Look it up on line and you will see what a diploma mill it is. This is a 'gift' to the blacks since they are incapable of getting a legit degree. There are also a tremendous amount of black reverend that are 'doctors of divinity' such as al sharpon, who never finished a formal education, the felon, herb doughtery (he did graduate prison for armed robbery), je$$e Jack$on along with joe lowery, remember him bashing bash at the funeral of the constantly constipated correta king. The only doctorate he could learn legimately would be one in ebonics. In the city colleges you have professors of black history that have no academic credentials at all. john henrick clark, called himself a doctor who has no degrees at all, james small has no degree at all and dr. ben says he is a graduate of havanna university but cannot prove it. Bill cosby, (the man that drugs white women and then fondles them) is a high school dropout who was awarded his BS for life studies and recieved his MS and Ph.D in ONE DAY from temple university for his 'fat albert' cartoon. If you listen to him speak you will notice that he is a functional illiterate. Let us not forget about the pinnacle of black intellects, cornel west. Prof west reminds me of the old time comic Prof. Irwin Corey, except Prof. Corey made much more sense. The adminstration of the colleges are so intimated by these blacks that they fall all over themselves and speak about what intellectual giants they are, and they speak about their insight, and their acute sense of fairness. This is a society that is completely terrified of these savages and are so hung up about being called racist. This is passed on to white children even in private schools, they are told one lie after another regarding blacks. A good example is when the self hater steven spielberg came out with the garbage movied armistad. There is a few things tolerant steve left out. After cinque's trial, he became a slave trader. Did they ever mention that fredrick douglas married a white woman. I don't think so. There is another self hater named Taylor branch who has written three 'white washed' accounts of martin (michael, his real name), luther king. It goes on and on, I see no end in sight.
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