A heavily pregnant diabetic asylum seeker is receiving sufficient medical support in Nauru's detention centre, the Immigration Department says, despite doctors calling on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to fly her to Australia to give birth. Melbourne neonatalist Dr Andrew Watkins declined a request from health agency Aspen Medical on Thursday to fly to Nauru on Friday to take care of the Kurdish woman's baby for about a week following a planned caesarean. The director of the paediatrics unit at Mercy Health said Nauru did not have enough staff with intensive...
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