Transfer proves Manus failure: critics Critics of the offshore processing system have seized on the transfer of asylum seekers from Manus. PREGNANT women and children held at the Manus Island asylum seeker detention centre have been brought to Australia for medical treatment and critics say it's further proof offshore processing is failing. The 19 asylum seekers were on Thursday transferred in family groups from the Papua New Guinea island to the Inverbrackie detention facility outside of Adelaide in South Australia. The Department of Immigration would not confirm how many required medical treatment or for what illnesses, only saying "the transfer was for medical reasons." Refugee advocates said those transferred were from the family compound at the Manus Island processing centre and included six pregnant women and a sick eight-year-old Iraqi girl accompanied by her mother. The Refugee Action Coalition said the transfer proved the Manus Island centre was unfit for families, and that the medical facilities were "completely inadequate." "It says everything about the quality of medical care in Manus Island that the women about to have children have had to be brought to the Australian mainland," spokesman Ian Rintoul said on Friday. The Labor government reopened the Howard-era facility in November last year. Australian Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said the Manus Island processing centre was a "horror show" and needed to be shut down. It is not saving lives. It is not stopping boats; in fact it is harming people including refugee children," she told reporters in Canberra. Comment has been sought from the office of immigration minister Brendan O'Connor.