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Doctors condemn conditions in Australian refugee camp
By Mike Head
24 December 2013
A group of 15 doctors has exposed the sub-standard medical care they are forced to provide asylum seekers at Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre. Their 92-page “letter of concern,” given to their employer in November, was published by the Guardian Australia web site last week.
The detailed letter sheds further light on the inhuman conditions imposed on thousands of refugees in the country’s detention facilities, both within Australia and on remote islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. It documents “numerous unsafe practices and gross departures from generally accepted medical standards which have posed significant risk to patients and caused considerable harm.”