Victorian government backs ‘brave decision’ of staff at Melbournes Royal Children’s hospital to speak out Doctors protesting at the incarceration of asylum-seeker children believe declined to say whether they would refuse to discharge patients if it meant they would be sent back to detention centres.
On Saturday doctors from the Royal Children’s hospital in Melbourne wrote an editorial in the Herald-Sun about the harm detention causes to children,and called for “moral leadership on this issue to find a solution, quickly, and to exhaust alternatives to detention and to conclude the harm”.
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Source: theguardian.com