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Amputee saved by refugee surgeon urges PM to rethink asylum seeker ban

Dr Munjed Al Muderis examines an X-ray.

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Allison France, a Brisbane woman who lost her leg five and a half years ago after she was hit by a car, has used an open letter to call on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, to reconsider banning asylum seekers, including refugees, from Australia for life. Ms France said she received life changing treatment from a doctor who fled from Iraq to Australia by boat – Dr Munjed Al Muderis. “I was destined to spend my life in a wheelchair until I met Dr Munjed Al Muderis,” she wrote. “I owe my health, my ability to walk and have a decent quality of life with my children to Dr Al Muderis.”



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