Submitted on Friday 25th September 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 20th October 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Replace all spirometers that falsely correct for race/ethnicity from the NHS
Due to prior forged and false evidence about BAME individuals having lower forced vital lung capacity (FVC), data-altering spirometers were created in the 1800s that still exist today and are in use. We ask that all of these are removed from the NHS and teaching and are replaced with updated models.
In 1864, a study was conducted that totalled to a 613 page report in an effort to try to prove that black people’s lung capacity was lower than that of white people’s in order to justify slavery, arguing that black people needed forced labour to stretch their lungs and to "vitalise their tainted blood". This is vastly untrue, but because of this false belief, BAME individuals today are more likely to receive inadequate treatment for asthma. The worst consequence of this is death.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. This is a clinical decision for the NHS.
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