An NHS hospital is trying to recover £350,000 in treatment costs from a Nigerian mother who gave birth to sick twins in Britain.
The figure is the largest to be attributed to a single case of “health tourism”, although the hospital said that it did not know whether the woman had come to Britain specifically to give birth on the NHS.
She spent two months in intensive care at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital after she was transferred there because of complications with her pregnancy. A spokesman for the hospital told the Daily Mail: “As an NHS Trust we cannot refuse to treat a patient, wherever they are from, if there is a danger to life.
“In this case two unborn babies required immediate
