For now no shelter and no hearing implant for Kalma

Moreover, before last week's appeal against her parents rejected her application rejected definitively. The chance that the girl will ever hear thereby shrinks considerably.

It is a week of setbacks for the Afghan family of Farhad (35), Aziza (28) and their children. Late last week the appeal against their unsuccessful application for asylum was rejected again.

The court has also decided Monday that their deaf daughter Kalma temporarily not entitled to compensation for a hearing implant, a medical intervention of EUR 60,000 which she could hear again. Failed asylum seekers are not entitled to such reimbursement. Moreover, the court ruled - like the Secretary of State - that the implant "is not medically necessary."

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Nevertheless, the decision of the court does not mean Kalma has no chance of an implant. When the State is still pending an appeal against the rejection of the compensation for the hearing implant. The parents meanwhile had gone to the court for a quick decision to enforce, because the implant should be inserted as soon as possible to guarantee success.

Do not give up
That "accelerated decision" now there is not reached, but the 'ordinary objection' is still running. The family is now hoping that that will probably turn out in their favor. It is up to the parents to make plausible with specialists that surgery is indeed medically necessary. The judge says so. ,, That is encouraging, it is now up to the doctors, who must be clear, '' said lawyer Weijsenfeld the parents of Kalma. The chance that doctors implant it be medically necessary, is great because Kalma will never hear otherwise.

The fact that in the meantime their asylum application was dismissed, the case is becoming increasingly difficult. If the application it was assigned Kalma would (like Dutch children) have a right to just compensation for a hearing implant. The lawyers of Kalma not giving up yet. They even eventually consider going to the European Court of Human Rights in steps.

Victor Schildkamp / Source: AD.nl/   © Catrienus van der Veen