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Daily Record
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Melanie Bonn

Refugee doctor would work in Perthshire but for now home is a metal container in Greece

An Iranian doctor caught up in Europe’s migration crisis has told the Perthshire Advertiser he’d like to come and be a GP in Perthshire - but red tape means it is near impossible for him to get out of a Greek refugee camp.

Dr Mohammadjavad Alikahi(28) previously worked in Iran as a GP with his own drug addiction clinic.

But he upset the Iranian Government and said he was jailed and cruelly tortured before fleeing for Europe.

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