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Refugee Update: Nauru
Jul. 3rd, 2018 04:22 pmThat poor devil with terminal lung cancer on Nauru has been transferred to a Queensland hospital, where at least he can die in peace.
First thing we do, let's thank all the lawyers: another child held on Nauru has been brought from PNG to Australia, where she can receive vital medical treatment, thanks to another successful court battle against our government by law firm Maurice Blackburn. And the National Justice Project won a court case to have a suicidal woman brought to Australia for an abortion -- she had been genitally mutilated, and Taiwan could not have provided the care she needed.
Nauru asylum seekers flown to Taiwan for medical care complain of language barriers (GA, 23 June 2018). "Some say that despite the high healthcare standards, they are sometimes unable to give informed consent."
From earlier this year: "The court heard from the government’s own health contractor, International Health and Medical Services, that the Nauru hospital was unsafe for surgery and that patients had died during routine operations." (Hence the government's secret deal with Taiwan, a country which doesn't accept refugees, to provide medical services.)
In The Nauru Diaries (Meanjin, autumn 2018), a former IHMS doctor gives a detailed account of the hopelessness of medical treatment on the island, for refugees and islanders both. To pick one example, he describes the needless death of a local ten-year-old girl: "The number of things that were done incorrectly, ignored, just plain screwed up, due to incompetence and ignorance, wilful or otherwise, was astounding. It painted a picture of a hospital utterly ill-equipped to deal with what should have been a fairly straightforward emergency presentation."
In pain and in limbo: the Nauru refugee denied an interview for US resettlement (GA, 30 May 2018). This article quickly becomes a litany of horrific medical problems, suffered by women refugees on Nauru and left untreated.
Fears for asylum seekers as Nauru moves to cut ties to Australia's high court (GA, 2 April 2018) | Justice in Nauru curtailed as Government abolishes appeal system (ABC, 2 April 2018).
Australia props up Nauru’s ‘out of control’ president (The Saturday Paper, 7 April 2018).
Nauru blocks ABC from Pacific forum over 'bias and false reporting' (GA, 2 July 2018)
First thing we do, let's thank all the lawyers: another child held on Nauru has been brought from PNG to Australia, where she can receive vital medical treatment, thanks to another successful court battle against our government by law firm Maurice Blackburn. And the National Justice Project won a court case to have a suicidal woman brought to Australia for an abortion -- she had been genitally mutilated, and Taiwan could not have provided the care she needed.
Nauru asylum seekers flown to Taiwan for medical care complain of language barriers (GA, 23 June 2018). "Some say that despite the high healthcare standards, they are sometimes unable to give informed consent."
From earlier this year: "The court heard from the government’s own health contractor, International Health and Medical Services, that the Nauru hospital was unsafe for surgery and that patients had died during routine operations." (Hence the government's secret deal with Taiwan, a country which doesn't accept refugees, to provide medical services.)
In The Nauru Diaries (Meanjin, autumn 2018), a former IHMS doctor gives a detailed account of the hopelessness of medical treatment on the island, for refugees and islanders both. To pick one example, he describes the needless death of a local ten-year-old girl: "The number of things that were done incorrectly, ignored, just plain screwed up, due to incompetence and ignorance, wilful or otherwise, was astounding. It painted a picture of a hospital utterly ill-equipped to deal with what should have been a fairly straightforward emergency presentation."
In pain and in limbo: the Nauru refugee denied an interview for US resettlement (GA, 30 May 2018). This article quickly becomes a litany of horrific medical problems, suffered by women refugees on Nauru and left untreated.
Fears for asylum seekers as Nauru moves to cut ties to Australia's high court (GA, 2 April 2018) | Justice in Nauru curtailed as Government abolishes appeal system (ABC, 2 April 2018).
Australia props up Nauru’s ‘out of control’ president (The Saturday Paper, 7 April 2018).
Nauru blocks ABC from Pacific forum over 'bias and false reporting' (GA, 2 July 2018)
