Piles of rotting garbage, no cleaners, and just one doctor for dozens of patients. That’s how a detainee on Christmas Island has described the situation in the facility which is in the grips of a COVID outbreak, making the living conditions untenable.
That’s how a detainee on Christmas Island has described the situation in the facility which is in the grips of a COVID outbreak, making the living conditions untenable.
“We’ve resorted to using one of the cells as a garbage disposal because no cleaners are allowed into the detention facility on Christmas Island,” he said.Rubbish on the floor at the detention centre.“We have little or no medical attention at all,” he said. “All detainees continue to have ongoing, regular access to quality health care delivered by experienced and appropriately qualified medical professionals located within immigration detention facilities.
“The ABF personnel have not even ventured to come into the detention facility to have a look at the atrocities that inflicted upon us,” he said.A general view of the Christmas Island Detention Centre.COVID first entered Christmas Island in March this year, when a staff member at the centre was only second person to be infected on the island.
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