Australia refuses pregnant migrants

canberra - Australia is not pregnant immigrant women on the island of Nauru . Even if they refuse medical treatment on the Micronesian island. That Minister Peter Dutton of Immigration said Thursday , reports the BBC.

Naura is a small independent island with about 10.000 inhabitants. There beaches occasionally refugees were on their way to Australia, but this country refuses reception of asylum seekers. However, the government in Canberra supports the island financially, money that will be used inter alia for a hospital. Australia believes that refugees use a pregnancy or diseases pretending to be admitted as yet.

Dutton explained that real patients or women who have to undergo an abortion, could temporarily to a hospital in Papua New Guinea where the medical assistance on Nauru is inadequate. He spoke of blackmail by women.

On Nauru stay several hundred refugees. The island is about half the size of Schiermonnikoog.