Uber driver, refugee, surgeon and now aspiring GP — meet Dr Karim Amani
Dr Karim Amani worked as a surgeon in Afghanistan until he fled to Australia with his wife.
“I was operating on a militia person when his colleagues came inside the operating theatre with guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
“They did not respect anything — they just wanted their colleague’s problem solved.”
Dr Karim Amani was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Afghanistan until his brother-in-law was killed in 2018, leading his Australian wife to decide the couple should flee the country.
Before coming to Australia, he spent four years treating civilians, US soldiers and local militia fighters at a 30-bed hospital in Baghlan in northern Afghanistan.
