Doctors beg Australian Border Force to move terminally ill refugee off Nauru
by Ben Doherty from World news | The Guardian on (#3QVN2)
ABF staff on the island have made repeated requests to Canberra for intervention
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Doctors on Nauru have pleaded with the Australian Border Force to move a terminally ill Afghan refugee off the island for palliative care.
The oldest Afghan Hazara held on Nauru, 63-year-old Ali*, has advanced lung cancer and his prognosis, according to doctors familiar with his case, is "dire".
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