There are calls for a review of detention centre conditions on Christmas Island after a three-year-old girl was airlifted to Perth Children’s Hospital.
Friends of the family say the girl had been visibly ill for 10 days before detention centre staff took her to a medical facility on the island despite repeated request by her mother for medical attention.
The friends have argued the entire ordeal could have been avoided if she had received treatment sooner. The Tamil family has been in detention since March 2018 after their visas expired, and the home they were living in in Biloela in rural central Queensland was raided by authorities.
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