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Article: Fed: Young girl loses sight in Nauru detention: claim
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- November 13, 2002
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Fed: Young girl loses sight in Nauru detention: claim
By Nikki Todd
BRISBANE, Nov 13 AAP - A four-year-old Afghani asylum seeker has
lost almost all her
sight amid complaints of inadequate health care at a detention centre
on Nauru, migrant
groups claim.
The young girl, Mahdia Rasuli, was detained with her family on
the island as part of
the federal government's so-called Pacific Solution.
Hazara Ethnic Society of Australia president Hassan Ghulam, of
Brisbane, said the young
girl had developed an eye infection, believed to be conjunctivitis,
before going totally
blind in one eye and losing almost all her sight in the other.
"She is blind now, she ...