Australian medical group wants access to Manus Island asylum
18/11/2017 14:59
Australia's main medical association called on Saturday for the government to allow independent doctors and other health experts to help more than
400 asylum seekers languishing inside a recently closed detention centre in Papua New Guinea.
The asylum seekers have shut themselves inside the Australian-run Manus Island Centre for the past 18 days, defying attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) to close it in a standoff the United Nations describes as a "looming humanitarian crisis".
Australia has shut access to the centre, and staff, including doctors, have left, leaving the men without sufficient food, clean water, power or medical care.
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