Bradley, 29, a British digital marketing teacher, met Mikhaiel in February 2022 through a Christian dating app. Mikhaiel is hoping that he and his partner, Sarah Bradley, will now be able to get married as soon as possible. Mikhaiel told the Guardian that his consultant will now start the life-lengthening treatment, having been reluctant to begin a drug treatment that might be abruptly interrupted if his patient was suddenly deported. He was held at Dungavel House detention centre in Lanarkshire for two weeks in May and June.Ī letter sent by officials at Misr international hospital in Egypt confirmed that the country’s drug authority did not provide a medicine called migalastat, which is used in Scotland to treat the disease. According to evidence from Egyptian doctors, being deprived of treatment for Fabry disease would cause Mikhaiel “intense suffering or death”. Without treatment, which is available in the UK, Mikhaiel’s lifespan is likely to be shortened.

Mikhaiel has Fabry disease, an inherited condition in which enzymes cannot break down fatty materials known as lipids, allowing them to build up in the body and damage the heart, kidneys and nervous system.

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