Staff at Brisbane's children's hospital have followed the lead of colleagues in Melbourne, calling for the immediate release of children being held in immigration detention centres.
Doctors and other medical staff at the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital say the centres are no place for children, and the harm they suffer is well documented in medical literature.
"Staff at our hospital have seen children with post-traumatic stress disorder, attempted suicide, developmental delays, recurrent nightmares, anxiety-related bed wetting, failure to thrive - a whole range of problems," the hospital's clinical ethics fellow Dr Melanie Jansen has told ABC radio.
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