The Appalling Asylum Seeker Conditions

[azureline**]

This is disgraceful and I can only hope the people who are in charge fix this asap.

An asylum seeker who was moved off Nauru to give birth is being locked up for 18 hours a day in a detention centre in Brisbane while her week-old baby remains in hospital with respiratory problems.

The case of Latifa, a 31-year-old woman of the persecuted Rohingya people of Myanmar, has shocked churches and refugee advocates.

She was separated from her baby on Sunday, four days after a caesarean delivery, and has since been allowed to visit him only between 10am and 4pm in Brisbane's Mater Hospital. The boy, named Farus, has respiratory problems and needs round-the-clock medical care.

Latifa is confined to the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation, 20 minutes away, where her husband and two children, four and seven, are being held.

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Latifa's husband, Niza, is not allowed to visit the child at all, according to people in daily contact with the family.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seeker-mother-kept-from-newborn-baby-in...

[polksaladallie]

I agree, Azure, this is disgraceful.   This separation will have deleterious effects on them both.  There would be somewhere in the hospital that she could stay.

Related to this, did you know that Quentin Bryce was responsible for changing the hospital visiting rules in Queensland?  Parents were allowed to visit their child for only 2 hours a day.  (Appalling)  She had a sick child and refused to leave.  She had a sleeping bag (or something similar) and simply stayed.   The rules changed after this, and now a parent can stay all the time.

[azureline**]

My first child was born in late 1973, he was in the special care nursery for 10 days, I was "allowed" to see him through the glass door twice a day. I had to move aside if anyone wanted to enter or leave.

[polksaladallie]

That is awful.  Young women these days wouldn't believe how difficult life was for women and their children in the past.

[azureline**]

Yes, today we would not put up with it would we?

I do hope the media attention changes things for this family.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I had the same in 1987 with my first child, azure.

If it meant the best care for my child, I would put up with it today as well.

[poddster]

I find id appalling that there is so much attention on any situation involving so called asylum seekers.

Of course it is in the interest of the opposition and the greens to put any obstacle in the Government's way.

But to turn the issue int a political football is insane, it benefits no one.

That is the same with Sarah Hanson-Young trying to undermine the Government's policy on the same issue, insanity.

The senate has taken on a bloody-minded view, and will oppose anything and everything.

I get the whiff of a double dissolution looming. the sooner the better

[ca04]

I wonder if anyone has asked the woman on her opinion about this.Might she not be thankfull to be where she

was transported from a centre to a major city(across internation borders) with her family & admitted to an hospital

where an operation was carried out for the betterment fo herself & child.Further the child is now in special care &

she is transported back & forth every day to visit.I can not help but think that some of these people are more

gratefull than the news & these groups will admitt or proclaim.

[lakeland27]

i think abbott too risk averse for that.  he might have lost a bit of cred since then . considering it was all confected in the first place

[lakeland27]

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@ca04 wrote:

I wonder if anyone has asked the woman on her opinion about this.Might she not be thankfull to be where she

was transported from a centre to a major city(across internation borders) with her family & admitted to an hospital

where an operation was carried out for the betterment fo herself & child.Further the child is now in special care &

she is transported back & forth every day to visit.I can not help but think that some of these people are more

gratefull than the news & these groups will admitt or proclaim.

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mother -child bond . dont come between them, its a line that shouldn't be crossed. punishing those already being punished is barbarism, it isn't australian mate.