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Kathryn Anderson

Inspirational Perth doctor sets up two hospitals in Iraq

An NHS Tayside doctor who fled Iraq has spoken of how he now splits his time between working in Iraq and Perth.

The inspirational medic spends a third of his time working in his home country where he established both a teaching hospital and a lung institute setting up specialist treatment not previously available in Iraq.

And when he is not in Iraq or seeing patients at Perth Royal Infirmary, respiratory consultant Mudher Al-Khairalla is off training doctors all over the world.

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