Immigrant left to die by starvation after Jesuit hospital decides care is too expensive

Rachel Nyirahabiyambere with two of her grandchildren in 2008. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Rwandan immigrant who survived the genocide of 1994 has now had her life cut off by starvation and dehydration, reportedly because a U.S. hospital affiliated with Georgetown University decided that caring for the woman who lost her health insurance was too expensive. The New York Times reports that Rachel Nyirahabiyambere, a 58-year-old grandmother and refugee from war-torn Rwanda, has been denied food and water since Feb. 19 after her feeding tube was removed. “It’s all about money,” son Jerome Ndayishimiye, 33, told the...