RCH refuse to return children

[bluecat*dancing]

Well done, RCH drs for putting the children first and standing up to our politicians and their heart breaking stance on asylum seekers.

http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/royal-childrens-hospital-doctors-refuse-to-return-children-to-detenti...

[springyzone]

Where is your evidence that doctors and others suggest that children should be removed from their parents? polks wrote.

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Please read what I wrote. I asked what doctors & others were suggesting.

Doctors are reported to be refusing to send children back to detention centres.

So let me ask you: Where are the parents? If they are in the detention centre, then the children are not being returned to their parents, how long would you suggest that stays in place?

If you are saying till the parents are out of detention, that could be a year or more. The parents may not even make the cut.

Or do you have in mind that if someone has a sick child, they bypass any regulations in place and are given a get out of detention free card? Is that a great precedent to set?

You tell me. What exactly do you think the process will be?

And where are these children, now well enough to be released, going to be kept? In beds that sick children are needing?

[polksaladallie]

You will have to put your questions to RCH.

I would think that some are orphans, and at least one parent is with the others in RCH.

But I do not know, so ask the relevant people.

[lloydslights]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

You will have to put your questions to RCH.

I would think that some are orphans, and at least one parent is with the others in RCH.

But I do not know, so ask the relevant people

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According to the original story posted (Post #1)

Fairfax Media understands there are not currently any asylum seekers who are inpatients at the Royal Children's Hospital. 

DEB

[polksaladallie]

So the children in the story are ghosts?

[lloydslights]

I would class the article as a ghost story, with a misrepresentation of  reports, AMA surveys, etc.

I think it is a poorly produced Press Release, with doubtful if any, investigative journalism involved in bringing it to print.

I do not like children to be involved in long-term detention. 

DEB

[polksaladallie]

Yes, it is all a fairy story.

Medical professionals protest children in detention

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2015/10/bst_20151012_0645.mp3

[opmania]

The original post

Which clearly states that currently there are 

No detainees in that hospital is the one everyone

Is responding to.

Yes they must be ghosts 

Or fairies

[polksaladallie]

The original post states that the medical professionals have decided to honour the part of the Hippocratic oath which says - "First do no harm".

There might have been detained children in RCH last week, there might be detained children there next week.  They do not want to return them to detention.  Not hard to follow, for most, anyway.

Ghosts, fairies?  No, real children.

[opmania]

I believe you were the one who first referred

To these children as ghosts and fairies

Thats not too hard to follow

For some of us anyway

[polksaladallie]

So glad you have seen the light at last.