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Mom of 5 in immigration detention in Texas was taken to ER, sparking urgent calls for her release

NBC News Top Stories·Suzanne Gamboa·about 2 months ago
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A mother of five held at an ICE detention center in Texas was taken to the emergency room in “excruciating” pain, weeks after she was refused a CT scan by center officials for a lump in her chest, according to her attorney. The woman, Hayman El Gamal, has been pleading for medical attention for the abnormal growth, which has caused severe pain, since Feb. 17, according to a court document filed Wednesday by her attorney, Eric Lee. Lee says in the document, filed in federal court in the Western District of Texas, that El Gamal was initially denied a CT scan recommended by a doctor at the Dilley Detention Center. A subsequent CT scan conducted when she was taken to the ER found she has fluid around her heart, or pericardial effusion. The emergency room doctor recommended an ultrasound, but DHS, ICE and CoreCivic, which manages Dilley, denied the request, the court filings say.…

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