The immigrant doctors keeping health services alive in a One Nation stronghold
Sri Lankan-born Associate Professor Alam Yoosuff has rebuilt Finley's health services with the help of IMGs.
When Associate Professor Alam Yoosuff arrived in town, it was just himself and another GP. The health services were withering.
The local hospital was on bypass, and when the only other doctor working with him left, he was on his own.
“It was a place where they told me they can’t recruit, where it wasn’t viable to have a medical clinic.”
But Finley, a rural community in southern NSW with a population of 2500, now has four full-time equivalent doctors, with a fifth arriving next year.
