"Overcrowding at the former RAF base in autumn 2022 led to an outbreak of diphtheria and scabies. Newly arrived asylum seekers were forced to sleep on filthy floors or on flattened cardboard boxes, and toilets overflowed with faeces. Women and children were forced to sleep close to unrelated men and there were claims of assaults by guards. A Kurdish asylum seeker, Hussein Haseeb Ahmed, who was processed at Manston, died in hospital after contracting diphtheria on 19 November 2022,"
"while a pregnant Syrian woman suffered a miscarriage after being denied immediate medical attention. At the height of the crisis, the centre, designed to accommodate a maximum of 1,600 people, was holding 4,000 detainees. Although people seeking asylum were supposed to be held at Manston for no more than 24 hours, documents show that 18,000 people of the 29,000 processed there between June and November 2022 were detained there for much longer."
Manston detention centre in Kent processed asylum claims for arrivals on small boats between 1 June and 22 November 2022. The former RAF base became severely overcrowded, holding up to 4,000 people in a facility designed for 1,600. Detainees slept on filthy floors or flattened cardboard, toilets overflowed with faeces, and women and children slept near unrelated men amid claims of assaults by guards. Outbreaks of diphtheria and scabies occurred; a Kurdish detainee died after contracting diphtheria and a pregnant woman miscarried after being denied urgent medical attention. Documents show 18,000 of 29,000 processed there were detained longer than the intended 24 hours, and multiple government departments plus 171 asylum seekers are participating in a non-statutory inquiry; Home Office documents conceded loss of control.
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