There is a growing public push for the federal government to free a family of Tamil illegal immigrants from Australia’s offshore detention after the youngest member of the family, a girl aged three, fell critically ill with sepsis and pneumonia.
Tharnica and her mother, Priya Murugappan, were evacuated to Perth Children’s Hospital in Western Australia on June 8. Priya Murugappan said that day that medical staff on Christmas Island refused to admit her daughter to the hospital after she fell sick two weeks ago.
