From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
An international human rights organization is reviewing whether Grady Memorial Hospital violated the rights of patients of its now-closed outpatients dialysis clinic.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has asked the U.S. government to respond to accusations by the patients’ attorneys, who assert that the hospital violated the patients rights to life and well-being. The approximately 50 patients are virtually all poor illegal immigrants who paid nothing for their treatments.
The attorneys want the commission to advocate that the patients continue to receive treatment — at the hospital’s expense — beyond Grady’s Feb. 3 deadline to stop care.
The attorneys also want the patients to receive this care until their legal challenge works its way through the courts.