Add your voice
Support MSF’s call for the immediate evacuation of all asylum seekers and refugees from Nauru and an end to offshore detention.
After almost one year of activity in Nauru Island, MSF has been informed on 5th of October by the Government of Nauru that our mental health activities were ‘no longer required’ and our presence was no longer needed. Five days after, we confirmed the end of our activities and closed all Mental Health services provided to the Nauruan population, asylum seekers and refugees.
All international MSF staff has now left the island and reached Australia. We are extremely concerned for the impact this decision will have on our patients and about the “beyond desperate” situation in which we have been forced to leave our patients. We want to reinforce our condemnation of this sudden decision and the way we were forced to end our activities.
We strongly condemn the Australian policy of offshore detention which is the real cause of the situation of mental health distress among refugees and asylum seekers on the island.
Add your voice by emailing Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, Immigration Minister David Coleman, Shadow Immigration Minister Shayne Neumann, and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
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