Currently, more than half of the refugee children held on Nauru have been flagged for urgent medical attention, according to Refugee advocates.
The holding area for refugees has seen a recent spike in medical admissions, which has been linked to the expulsion of Medecins Sans Frontiere’s (or Doctors Without Borders) from the island.
At the moment, there are around 50 children on the ‘open air prison’ with 1 in four of them being acutely suicidal.
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