Refugee doctor would work in Perthshire but for now home is a metal container in Greece
dailyrecord.co.ukAn 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.
The convert to Christianity wants to come to Perth - where he has friends - and put his skills and training to use amid a shortage of local doctors.
Instead he is struggling alongside 1600 others in the Malakasa migrant camp in wooded hills near Athens - where he has been since June 2020 - where he endures queues for food and punishing daily conditions.Mohammadjavad sleeps in a metal container.
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