{"id":83868,"date":"2026-01-22T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83868"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:38:17","slug":"asylum-seekers-banned-from-taxis-for-medical-appointments-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/22\/asylum-seekers-banned-from-taxis-for-medical-appointments-after\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS trust agrees to give &#8216;life-saving surgery&#8217; to British baby after campaign by parents in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UK321.img?w=534&amp;h=449&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Doctors at Koc University Hospital treat little Maverick who has dilated cardiomyopathy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a> has agreed to give a seriously ill British baby life-saving treatment in a U-turn after a desperate campaign by his parents to get him out of a Turkish hospital. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/asylum-seekers-banned-from-taxis-for-medical-appointments-after-taxpayers-foot-15-8m-transport-bill\/ar-AA1UKCrn?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6972835e6d8945fcad039e48df046db7&amp;ei=19\">Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0NHS has agreed to give a seriously ill British baby life-saving treatment in a U-turn after a desperate campaign by his parents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Maverick-Corin.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83886,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83868\/revisions\/83886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}