Re: RCH refuse to return children

bluecat*dancing · ‎11-10-2015

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...

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bluecat*dancing · ‎11-10-2015

Doctors at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne are refusing to send back asylum seeker children to detention centres amid a showdown with the Immigration Department.

News Corp is reporting the doctors are concerned about the welfare of their dozens of patients and say it would be unethical to discharge them to unsafe conditions that could compromise their health.

Defying new federal laws threatening two years' jail for health workers who speak out against immigration detention centre conditions, more than 400 of the hospital's doctors stood together on Friday demanding children be released from detention.

"We see a whole range of physical, mental, emotional and social disturbances that are really severe and we have no hope of improving these things when we have to discharge our patients back into detention," one paediatrician told News Corp.

The outlet reported that it understood the issue was sparked by a month-long standoff between doctors and authorities over the release of a child with a range of health issues this year.

Staff have also been outraged at immigration guards placed at the entrances of some patients' rooms for 24 hours a day.

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kilroy_is_here · ‎11-10-2015

So now we have doctors dictating government policy, why don't these over payed extortionists donate there time and go to the detention centres and treat all the inmates if they are that concerned

the_great_she_elephant · ‎11-10-2015

@kilroy_is_here wrote:
So now we have doctors dictating government policy, why don't these over payed extortionists donate there time and go to the detention centres and treat all the inmates if they are that concerned

You're missing the point Kilroy. It's not a lack of doctors in detention centres that is the problem it's the detention centres themselves and the conditions there under which the children have to live and the doctors have to work.

polksaladallie · ‎11-10-2015

I am wondering about the mystery surrounding the refugee who is pregnant after being raped and who is for some reason being prevented from being brought to Australia for an abortion. Why the secrecy?

lionrose.7 · ‎11-10-2015

How can any one think about sending these little children back to a place that is a prison, we are not Nazi's.

Heart breaking.

opmania · ‎11-10-2015

Its very unlikely that they

Will be gased

Burned and their fat turned

Into soap and sold back

To the inmates

I would expect a detention

Centre would be a

Holiday choice as opposed

To a war zone for a legitimate

Refugee.

If they were more

Co-operative and stopped

Going on hunger strikes

Sewing their lips together

And burning matresses

And anything else they can find or do

To create total chaos.

Perhaps they would enjoy their

Stay a little more than they do

This could as well cause many of

The problems the children

Supposedly have or geez maybe its

Because they have been

Traumatized by war

And how many of the medical

Staff at this hospital are islamic

I wonder.

Doesn't matter how they

Go about it , they always get their way.

myoclon1cjerk · ‎11-10-2015

We can't let them stay here.If we do,lots more coloured people who talk funny will want to come too We have to keep Straya pure and white.Zat is an order!!

myoclon1cjerk · ‎11-10-2015

Nothing like iambic pentameter

bluecat*dancing · ‎11-10-2015

Or lack of. Robert Frost was a genius with that,

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"There is nothing more; but I want nothing more." Christopher Hitchins