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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: OZschwitz Concentration Camp at Nauru: “When You Silence Doctors And Nurses You’re Getting Into Dangerous Territory” Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:18 am | |
| “I am a specialist nurse and I co-run a refugee clinic at a children’s hospital in Sydney. Last December, International Health and Medical Services (IHMS) asked me and my colleague, Professor David Isaacs, if we would go to Nauru. They wanted us to assess the patients over five days then write recommendations about how IHMS could improve the health care services.
“Nauru can be beautiful. It takes just 20 minutes to drive around it. The locals live around the tropical outskirts of the island, but the detention centre is where the decimated phosphate mines are. There, it can reach 50°C.
“We took charter flights from Sydney to Brisbane to Nauru, chaperoned by IHMS workers all the way. When we got there we were met by another group of IHMS workers and they took us to our accommodation, which was where the 2013 riots took place. That building had been burned down, so they built makeshift metal Portakabins for the service provider workers to stay in. You’d need a pass every time you went in or out. Then you were in there again behind these gates. It was a surreal, oppressive experience.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marie-claire/news-and-views/world-reads/a/29167977/when-you-silence-doctors-and-nurses-you-re-getting-into-dangerous-territory/ |
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