'Bizarre Vendetta': Nauru Bans Telehealth After Doctors Without Borders Starts Seeing Patients
after being forcibly ejected by the Nauruan government in October last year.
After hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers were transferred to Australia for medical treatment in recent years, politicians from opposition and minor parties passed a law dubbed the"medevac bill" to make the process easier. The new law allows two doctors to recommend a medical transfer from offshore detention, however this can be overruled by the home affairs minister, in which case a medical panel makes a final decision.
In the almost three weeks the telehealth service had been running, MSF had been contacted by 40 patients and held telehealth consultations with some of those people, Edwards said. All 40 were refugees and asylum seekers. "It’s unethical for us to continue under the circumstances that we might call for an ambulance and no-one will take our call," he said.
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