Refugee advocates are maintaining their call for the Immigration Minister to bring the 11 year-old Iranian refugee from Nauru to Australia for an urgent operation to reset his broken arm.<\/p>\n
Having dropped India, the latest proposal is for the government to send a Sydney doctor to Nauru to operate on the boy\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is trying to bully Erfan\u2019s parents into agreeing to have the operation on Nauru, even though the equipment and facilities to safely and successfully operate are not available there,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n
On Monday, 1 June, even the resident doctor on Nauru, Dr Bwabwa Oten, told Doctors for Refugees, \u201cI would strongly recommend early referral offshore for MRI, assessment by a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon and ORIF.\u201d<\/p>\n
Erfan has been in pain since setting his broken arm was botched by doctors at the Nauru hospital on 5 May.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time the Minister stopped playing politics with Erfan\u2019s arm and brought him to Australia. Immigration officials told Erfan\u2019s parents that there was no other option but to operate on Nauru. But that is not true. A female Connect case worker who broke her hand 10 days ago on Nauru was immediately medivacced to Australia for treatment. \u201d said Rintoul.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Nauru was unacceptable for the Connect worker, it is unacceptable for Erfan. The only reason Erfan hasn\u2019t been brought to Australia is that he is a refugee. When IHMS thought he was an asylum seeker, Erfan\u2019s parents were told that he would be taken to Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a shocking case of the Minister abandoning common sense and trying to score political points at the expense of a boy\u2019s arm and the anxiety of the boy\u2019s parents. Delaying Erfan\u2019s treatment in this way, is unforgivable.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Refugee advocates are maintaining their call for the Immigration Minister to bring the 11 year-old Iranian refugee from Nauru to Australia for an urgent operation to reset his broken arm. Having dropped India, the latest proposal is for the government to send a Sydney doctor to Nauru to operate on the boy\u2019s arm. \u201cThe government […]<\/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-4104","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\/4104","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=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}