Published: August 15, 2018
Island staff report a looming children’s health crisis ahead of Pacific Islands Forum
A 12-year-old refugee boy on hunger strike on Nauru for more than a fortnight is at imminent risk of dying, medical staff on the island say, but efforts to move him to hospital care in Australia have foundered.
He is one of several critical child cases on the island – including a 14-year-old boy with muscle wastage so severe he may never walk normally again, and a two-year-old girl whose parents are too unwell to care for her.
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