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"Some of the people who have got ongoing things that need monitoring and treatment have been sent back to Manus where they're not going to get any of that for the next month. The people who have been deemed presumably too sick to be transferred back to Manus are now effectively locked down in Granville hotel without any hospital appointments. So we can envisage a month where the medical crisis on Manus and in Port Moresby is just going to get worse."
Among the men back on Manus is the Kurdish refugee Benham Satah, who says a sick Iraqi man was kept in Port Moresby after a gruesome act of self harm.
"He's in a very bad situation, he's lost lots of blood after he did self harm and not mentally well at all. He did a very big cut in his head. He lost so much blood that he was so weak that he couldn't walk and then he collapsed and I think his nose is also broken. He has been in Port Moresby for a long time - actually three times for the same medical issue that never got proper treatment."
Many more sick men await transfer or treatment on Manus, where the former refugee case worker, Nicole Judge, recently returned, five years since quiting offshore detention.
Appalled by the inhuman, abusive treatment of detainees, Ms Judge says the refugees' health has dramatically deteriorated since she last saw them.
"Some of the people have open sores that are weeping, all over their bodies and they don't know what it is. Which alarms us as advocates because that is what Hamid Khazaei had and he ended up dying of septicemia. Other people are very distressed and suicidal and attempting suicide every few days. Other people have bleeding, these are young men who are having this bleeding and they don't know why. So there are digestion problems and they're not being told what's wrong with them or what they can do to treat them they're just being left on Manus."
The Kurdish journalist and Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani says the local hospital is unable to treat a catatonic refugee, who has refused food for 10 days and is now refusing water.
He says the campaign to force the Australian government to transfer children from Nauru has made adult refugees feel forgotten.
"The Kids off Nauru campaign has had a negative impact on the refugees on Manus Island and I am sure has a negative impact on the adult people on Nauru because people think that the refugees movement forget about them and they feel they are forgotten people."
Mr Boochani says over the last 10 days, seven Manus Island refugees have attempted suicide.