INAUGURAL Doctors for Refugees Conference tomorrow. Join an eminent line up of experts sharing their insights and experiences on healthcare in the detention system and ask your questions about this shameful period in Australia's refugee policies. Registration is free.

Contact Northern Hospital at [email protected] They need to know that the community will support them if the doctors refuse to discharge Vali back to more torture

Please ask Northern Hospital in Melbourne not to discharge a patient back to detention where he was bashed and has a fractured nose among other injuries. Drs need to care for pts post discharge #dontdischargetodetention ASRC RACS RAC Victoria

Doctors release an open letter to all Australian hospitals today asking them to consider whether detention is an appropriate post discharge location doctors4refugees.org/single-post/op…

Doctors ask Brisbane hospital not to send refugee back to 'unsafe' immigration detention theguardian.com/australia-news…
Doctors have undertaken to look after their patients, not the immigration department, and have every right to recommend a safer place of discharge.

Doctors ask Brisbane hospital not to send refugee back to 'unsafe' immigration detention theguardian.com/australia-news…
When patients are in hospital they become the doctors' responsibility, which includes ensuring a safe post- discharge location for them.

Doctors, nurses, paramedics and all health professionals note - if your patient is shackled with no valid reason then you are within your professional rights to ask that the restraints be removed. Arriving in Australia without the correct visa 8 years ago is not a valid reason.

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CGZRA47APpA/…

The more common mental health diagnoses associated with refugee populations include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, adjustment disorder, and somatization.… instagram.com/p/CD3j3aIAZ_N/…

A report into immigration detention by the #HumanRights Commission found hotels were 'not appropriate places of detention, given their lack of dedicated facilities and restrictions on access to open space' #australiandetention #refugeerights #HumanRights bit.ly/3h9ejil

People trapped in these centres and APODs cannot request that security stand away, cannot refuse room searches and cannot avoid frequent daily pat downs from guards.

The same people who were advocating for harsh treatment of refugees may well be the people that blame the government if one of their loved ones dies as a result of transmission connected with the centres #COVID19Aus #refugees #GameOver
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/immigrati…

Doctors and Academics...please sign this open letter to the government to empty the detention centres immediately to prevent escalation of this viral crisis. Please circulate widely.
docs.google.com/document/d/16M…
Academics for Refugees Public Health Australia #COVID2019AU #covid19australia

#Covid_19australia #covid19australia

Doctors, Academics please join the call to empty the detention centres and let the refugees live safely with family and community supports. This is a pandemic that must be controlled.

The Public Health Association of Australia has joined our call for the urgent closure of the detention centres to avoid escalating a public health crisis.
This is a major Public Health concern. Public Health Australia AMA President AMA Media #GameOver

Close the centres now or risk another outbreak

“The doctors, they are saying 'you need to have three or four metres from each other', we don’t have one centimetre from each other.”
Dr Barri Phatarfod: “It’s like having one of those cruise ships in every city in Australia.” amp.sbs.com.au/v1/article/for…

So much for PNG’s perfectly adequate health system. Clearly refugees’ lives don’t matter as much. #GameOver

We knew that they were denied medical care ...just so the govt could claim they weren’t getting medical care. abc.net.au/radio/melbourn…