Immigration Minister Peter Dutton insists a critically-ill asylum seeker on Manus Island has access to a world-class health care facility in Papua New Guinea, dismissing pleas from doctors to transfer him to Australia.
Mohammad Albederee has been on a hunger strike for more than 100 days protesting against a lack of medical treatment for kidney and shoulder problems, after an alleged assault by guards at the detention centre in 2014.
"The department has a chief medical officer who provides advice to the secretary but we provide in a humane way support to these people," Mr Dutton told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.
