An Iranian woman brought from Nauru to Brisbane in April to give birth to a premature baby is only seeing her new born son for around one and a half hours a day.<\/p>\n
Fatema went into premature labour on Nauru and was brought to the Brisbane Royal Children’s Hospital, where she gave birth to a son Hossin, on 23 April, at 32 weeks into term. Hossin weighed only 1.83 kgs when he was born and is now being fed through a tube.<\/p>\n
The family (husband and two children, daughter aged 11, and son 6) is now in the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation detention centre (BITA) but the mother and the family are only being taken to see Hossin for around one and half hours a day, in the morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a disgrace that this family is being treated in this way. There should be proper arrangements so that Fatema in particular has proper access to see her new baby whenever she wants to. That is the least the Minister can do,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, from the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mistreatment of this family is indicative of the general mistreatment of pregnant women on Nauru and Christmas Island generally. This is the result of the punitive policies that determine the government\u2019s attitude to asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFatema should never have been sent to Nauru. The \u2018no disadvantage\u2019 principle that Scott Morrison uses to dump pregnant women on Nauru is risking the lives of mothers and babies. A second Rohingya couple was brought to Brisbane in early April for a termination because they could not face the prospect of having a baby on Nauru.<\/p>\n
\u201cNauru is not safe for mothers or babies.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the pregnant women and their families should be brought from Nauru immediately instead of waiting until they are to give birth,\u201d said Rintoul.<\/p>\n
The \u201c2014 Mothers\u2019 Index Rankings\u201d produced by Save the Children notably did not rate Nauru; but PNG rated 164 out of the 178 countries that were assessed.<\/p>\n
On a measure of infant mortality, Nauru, which has an under-five mortality, 40 deaths per 1,000 live births compares with Ghana (39.7 infant deaths under one year per 1000 live births) ranked at 150 of the 170 countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder Scott Morrison\u2019s \u2018no disadvantage\u2019 rule pregnant women are being sent to a country that ranks around 150 out of 178 countries. That is more than enough evidence that Nauru should be scrapped,\u201d Rintoul added.<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul mob 0417 275 713<\/p>\n
The Refugee Action Coalition will be holding a protest Friday 9.00am at the Law Courts Blg, to coincide with the High Court hearing in Canberra that is challenging the constitutional basis of the declaration of Manus Island and Nauru as off-shore processing centres.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Iranian woman brought from Nauru to Brisbane in April to give birth to a premature baby is only seeing her new born son for around one and a half hours a day. Fatema went into premature labour on Nauru and was brought to the Brisbane Royal Children’s Hospital, where she gave birth to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-3260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"tag-nauru"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}