A human rights lawyer has accused the Federal Government of failing "in its duty of care" after a 15-month-old girl housed in a Melbourne immigration detention centre was hospitalised with the flu.
Vietnamese asylum seeker Huyen Tran was put in detention about 20 months ago, when she was about 5 months pregnant with her daughter Isabella.
Baby Isabella was born in detention and according to the pro-bono legal firm Human Rights for All, she has spent her entire life in detention.
Ms Tran's lawyer, Alison Battisson, told the ABC that Isabella's mother had been complaining to staff at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) facility for several weeks that the 15-month-old had a fever, but those calls were ignored.