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The IOM report noted that orders for medical supplies for the campdating back to mid December had still not been received, and that 'in theevent of a major emergency, particularly involving trauma or serious

internal medical problem, we would be ille!uipped to cope'"#n e$ample given is of a %&yearold girl who had just been evacuated to

ort Moresby for 'emergency management and stabilisation' after theidentification of early ketoacidosis (a serious and potentially lifethreatening condition) of juvenile onset diabetes" '*ad she progressed toadvanced ketoacidosis we would have been unable to manage herresuscitation and orderly evacuation" +e have no soluable insulin', thereport said" In other words, she would have died"

*er mother later tells me her daughter had been vomiting all the timeand her hair was falling out before her condition was diagnosed" The reportnoted the 'seriously limited' capacity of the local hospital to manage anemergency due to a 'relative disarray of e!uipment and drugs, absence ofkey e!uipment, combined with a lack of staff familiarity'"

The girl's mother and father say that after two weeks in ort Moresby, thefamily was taken to airns, where they spent around four months travelling

between a motel and a hospital with security guards" They were thentransferred to the Maribyrnong detention centre in Melbourne, where themother was diagnosed with type - diabetes" Iit would be another year beforethe two girls and their parents were released from the high security centre ontemporary visas"