More than 1,300 asylum seekers and refugees have been transferred to Australia from PNG and Nauru under existing and new medical transfer processes and the vast majority remain in the country. As Senate debate on the medevac bill is set to begin, two women share their stories. Two days after Shaghayegh was released from Sydney’s Villawood detention centre, she began taking antidepressants. It was something the 33-year-old Iranian had resisted during the four-and-a-half years she spent in offshore immigration detention on Christmas Island and Nauru, she says. “I was so depressed, I cry a lot. When I came out [of Villawood] I feel I need something,” she told SBS News. Shaghayegh was granted a temporary visa after being transferred to Australia for medical treatment. At the end of June 2017 she was transferred from Nauru to Sydney for a medical procedure not available on Nauru, and still lives in […]