Cancer patient held at airport for missing fingerprint

[NM]

From news.com.au:

A SINGAPORE cancer patient was held for four hours by immigration officials in the United States when they could not detect his fingerprints, which had apparently disappeared because of a drug he was taking.

The incident, highlighted in the Annals of Oncology, was reported by the patient's doctor, Tan Eng Huat, who advised cancer patients taking this drug to carry a doctor's letter when travelling to the United States.

 

[kiwitripper64]

Poor bugger. Just adds to the list of people held up by those qwith no common sense. like the elderly man with knee replacement i saw being forced through bureaucratic hoops to prove it was a knee replacement and not some terroist device under his skin where the knee joint should be.