Moroccan Cancer Patient Receives Care in Seville After Asylum Rejection

The 30-year-old man has been a beneficiary of the social care system for homeless people since Wednesday, according to sources from the Accem association in Seville, which is supporting him in his cancer treatment and his fight to regularize his administrative situation for the past two years.

The Moroccan, who arrived in Spain by swimming in May 2017, is currently in the temporary shelter and the medical-social care center for the homeless of the national association AFAR. After being denied asylum about two weeks ago, he was residing in an Accem apartment that fought to find him a suitable shelter for his very advanced cancer in order to provide him with social and health care.

Thanks to the help of this local NGO, he has undergone three cycles of chemotherapy and two bone marrow transplants per year at the oncology department of the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville since his arrival in Seville in October 2021. "I need help, please," he confided after the rejection of his asylum application.

Accem has asked the Ministries of the Interior and Inclusion to consider the Moroccan’s "complicated" health situation in order to issue him basic documents. The NGO hopes that humanitarian reasons will motivate the authorities to respond favorably to this request in order to allow the young man to receive adequate care in a specialized center.