There are growing concerns for Australian man Robert Pether, who is languishing in an overcrowded Baghdad jail, with doctors arguing he needs urgent surgery to treat multiple suspected skin cancers.
There are grave fears for the health of an Australian man languishing in an overcrowded Baghdad jail, with doctors arguing he needs urgent surgery to treat multiple suspected skin cancers.Pether's wife says there is a "marked difference" in the new government's approach to his caseRobert Pether, 47, has been behind bars in Iraq since April last year, found guilty of what his family and legal team describe as trumped-up fraud charges.
Pether's family spent nine months trying to get him access to medical experts in Iraq, after a photo of lesions on his back was sent to a doctor in Italy."He's got so many new moles on his back, he's got a new mole on the same ear that he had a melanoma before, and it has changed significantly in the last few months.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
"Our doctors stated that he looks 74, not 47, and he looks very frail, like a frail old man," she said."There's also [the risk of] post-operative infection when he's in a 14-foot cell with 22 other men."