Doctors will now have more power to decide whether asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru should come to Australia for medical treatment after the passage of a medical evacuation bill through the Senate.
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Doctors to decide if asylum seekers are treated in Australia as 'medivac' bill becomes law.
Doctors will now have more power to decide whether asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru should come to Australia for medical treatment after the passage of a medical evacuation bill through the Senate.
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By Madhura Seneviratne, Greg Dyett
Source: SBS
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