22 Nov 2017

Manus Island refugees health imperil - advocates

From , 6:03 am on 22 November 2017

Advocates who secretly entered the former detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island say the health of refugees there is in peril.

A physician, Professor Patrick McGorry, who has seen the advocates' footage says preventable deaths seem imminent.

About 400 men, detained without charge by Australia since 2013, are refusing to move to other facilities on the island, despite power, water, food and medication being cut when the centre closed at the end of October.

Natasha Blucher from Melbourne's Asylum Seeker Resource Centre entered the centre last week with three colleagues.

She told Ben Robinson Drawbridge the situation is a medical emergency.

The 111th daily protest at the detention centre, 19-11-17.

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