Omid Masoumali would have had 95% chance of survival had he been properly treated after self-immolating, burns specialist tells inquest
Omid Masoumali – the Iranian refugee who set himself on fire on Nauru in protest at his indefinite detention – would almost certainly have survived if he had been better cared for, or transferred more quickly to an Australian hospital, a coroner has found.
It took nearly 30 hours to bring Masoumali, suffering burns to 57% of his body, to Australia, after he doused himself in petrol and self-immolated in protest at his indefinite detention, telling those watching: “I cannot take it any more.”
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