Nauru Nauru refugee caught between her son and 'high heart attack risk' Medical report says she needs to be moved urgently for treatment but border force won’t allow her son to go with her Fatemeh, an Iranian refugee held on Nauru, in what she describes as her ‘small, dark tent like a solitary cell’. Doctors have diagnosed a refugee held on Nauru as being at “high and imminent risk of … heart attack or sudden death”, but the Australian Border Force has refused to move her to a hospital that can treat her, because she won’t leave her young son alone on the island. “For the Australian Border Force to use her son as a way of denying treatment is breathtakingly cynical,” he told the Guardian. They put us on suicide watch.”Fourth group of refugees set to leave Nauru for the US Read moreFatemeh said her health had continued to deteriorate. “I have not been able to bring the safety and tranquillity I sought for my son and my life.

Source: The Guardian February 18, 2018 16:52 UTC