Australian Immigration Daily News

This bill seeks to amend the Migration Act 1958 to require the temporary transfer to Australia of transitory persons on Manus Island or Nauru, and their families, if they are assessed by two or more treating doctors as requiring medical treatment.

It also requires the temporary transfer of all children and their families from offshore detention to Australia for the purpose of medical or psychiatric assessment.

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) calls for end to medical crisis in offshore detention. 

The RACP has today responded to new data released by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).  Professor David Isaacs, a paediatrician and RACP Fellow who treated children in the Nauru detention centre in 2015, said:

“In the last five years, 12 people have died within offshore detention arrangements. We cannot wait until another person dies. We have a responsibility to act."

“In Australia, clinical need, not politics, determines access to assessment and care. This should apply equally on Manus Island and Nauru."

Migration-Amendment-Urgent-Medical-Treatment-Bill-2018.pdf

and

Migration-Amendment-Urgent-Medical-Treatment-Bill-2018-Explanatory-Memorandum.pdf

and

RACP-calls-for-end-to-medical-crisis-in-offshore-detention.pdf