Tag Archive: australian medical association

Doctor-hunters seek bounty in Australia

Sydney, Nov 26 (DPA) Advertisements ran in local newspapers Thursday offering a finder’s fee of 3,000 Australian dollars ($2,750) for anyone who can persuade an overseas doctor to work in Australia.

The advertisements were placed by the Australian Medical Association (AMA), which hopes to lure 500 doctors to meet a local shortage and says the money [...]

Read the full article »

Long jail terms for Australians who attacked India-born doctor

Melbourne, Nov 18 (IANS) Three Australian youths were Wednesday awarded jail terms of up to 18 years for viciously attacking India-born doctor and former head of the Australian Medical Association Mukesh Haikerwal last year. The doctor said he drew ‘no comfort’ from the sentencing.

The much respected doctor was attacked in a park in Melbourne’s Williamstown [...]

Read the full article »

No comfort from jail term to attackers, says India-born doctor

Melbourne, Nov 18 (IANS) India-born doctor and former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Mukesh Haikerwal Wednesday said he takes ‘no comfort’ from jail terms for his attackers who inflicted such injuries that he lost a piece of his brain and had to relearn how to walk and talk.

The much respected doctor was attacked [...]

Read the full article »

Bashed Indian Australian doctor bravely faces his attackers in court

Melbourne, Nov.12 (ANI): Bashed Indian Australian doctor Mukesh Haikerwal today bravely faced his attackers in court after recovering from head injuries that almost killed him last year.lfer Azzopardi, Michael Baltatzis and Sean Gabriel have admitted to attacking the former Australian Medical Association boss and robbing others during a violent spree last year.

Dr. Haikerwal was [...]

Read the full article »

Court told how savagely India-born doctor was attacked

Melbourne, Nov 9 (IANS) India-born doctor Mukesh Haikerwal was so savagely attacked here with a baseball bat a year ago that shocked witnesses heard his skull crack, an Australian court heard.

The former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) was struck on the head four or five times with the bat in a park at [...]

Read the full article »

India-born doctor’s skull heard to crack in Australia attack

Melbourne, Nov 9 (IANS) India-born doctor and former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Mukesh Haikerwal’s skull was heard to crack as he was savagely assaulted with a baseball bat by a group of teenagers in a suburb here last year, a court has been told.

Haikerwal was struck on the head four or five [...]

Read the full article »

Travellers to Europe could undergo full-body X-ray after bum bomb scare

Melbourne, Oct 8 (ANI): Tourists travelling to Europe could now be subjected to a full-body X-ray after a terrorist tried to kill a Saudi prince with a bomb he had inserted into his rectum in late August.

The travellers could also be forced to hand in mobile phones under the new security measures expected to be [...]

Read the full article »

who's online