A hunger striking asylum seeker on Manus Island with serious kidney problems alleges he is being denied proper medical care and instead was shipped to Port Moresby and held in a motel.
Mohammad Albederee, 31, has been on hunger strike for almost three months to protest against a lack of medical care for kidney and shoulder problems after an alleged assault at the detention centre last year.
Since then his condition has deteriorated, and he spends hours vomiting when he has tried to ingest food or drink. He has also self harmed.
AAP understands Mr Albederee, who has reportedly lost 21kg, was flown to Port Moresby in mid-June where, on the 19th, he was given an MRI and an X-Ray for his shoulder.
But instead of being kept in hospital, it's claimed he was taken to the Granville Motel near Jacksons International Airport and kept under guard for 12 days while a nurse took urine samples from him.
He says he was told he needed to see another doctor because he was passing blood in his urine, but he was suddenly shipped back to Manus.
"The nurse come in the morning and give me a bottle and test some urine. When the check (was done) she told me I had blood in my urine, I have a problem in my kidney and a problem in my stomach," he said in audio recordings obtained by AAP.
"She told me I need hospital, but after half hour security come in and told me Mohammad take your bag, you come back to Manus Island."
He says he stopped taking fluids on July 1 when he returned to Manus. Since then security staff have frequently tried to get him to eat and drink.
"When I drink Milo and tea it makes me more sick, more tired, more pain in my chest," he said.
After recently trying to eat two hot chips and a small piece of bread, he spent hours vomiting and was sent to International Hospital and Medical Services where he received fluids and injections.
Asylum seeker advocate and SA Democrat Jeanie Walker says Mr Albederee began his hunger strike after he refused to sign a document absolving Wilson Security of responsibility for his condition.
Ms Walker says she has complained to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's office.
She said Wilson Security were covering themselves and trying to bully him into eating.
"But his medical conditions are that bad he can't," she told AAP.
It's understood that on Friday night Mr Albederee collapsed, and was removed from his room and taken to a hospital where he was given more intravenous fluids and injections - including for pain - before being taken back to his room.
A spokesman for Immigration said Mr Albederee continues to receive "appropriate clinical care", and that transferees have access to care that is "broadly comparable" with health services available in Australia.
The spokesman also said transferees requiring further medical treatment not available at Manus are taken to Port Moresby to access required treatment.
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