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Farid Farid

Refugee doctors revive careers cut short by conflict

Inna Malynochka from Ukraine and Karim Amani from Afghanistan have got to know Australian hospitals. (HANDOUT/MATER HOSPITAL)

An anaesthetist who had a gun pointed at her head by Islamic State militants in Iraq, an Afghan surgeon who had family killed by militants and a Ukrainian obstetrician who survived Russian bombs have been given a new start at a Brisbane hospital.

A Mater Hospital program that began in 2019, and was cut short due to COVID-19, has come off life support to enable refugee doctors to revive their medical careers that were disrupted by conflict.

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