MEDICAL facilities will be dramatically improved on Nauru to prevent injured and sick asylum seekers being sent to Australia for treatment. 
Federal taxpayers have paid a Brisbane specialist $20,000 to inspect obstetrics facilities and review processes so pregnant asylum seekers no longer have to give birth in Australia.
The move was in part sparked by about six pregnant asylum seekers who last year refused to accept medical intervention unless they could come to Australia.
A $26 million upgrade to the Nauru Hospital will include paediatric, cancer and obstetrics services, and CAT scans.
The regional processing centre's medical clinic has 25 primary health staff. The developments come as Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk denied her government had encouraged doctors to delay the release of baby Asha, who will almost certainly be returned to Nauru.
Asha was treated for burns at Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital but discharged from the burns unit.
The hospital had refused to release her because it wanted to ensure she had a "suitable home environment".
"Let me make it very clear, doctors make clinical decisions, ministers do not interfere in clinical decisions of doctors. We respect the doctors," Ms Palaszczuk said.
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