This Sunday ends this Sunday time to send requests to work as the only doctor in the city where 500 people live within Australia. Brisbane. 17 hours in car from Brisbane Julia Greek
A distant Australian city will soon lose its only doctor Provides salary up to 80 680,000 Australians (About 400,000 euros), in addition to the rental and free vehicle Attract the new candidate To occupy your position.
Julia Greek, a small municipality of Queensland, does not have 500 people, which offers twice as much as a family doctor in the state capital, Brisbane. The problem is that this big city is 17 hours in the car from Julia Greek. The closest city of Townsville is seven hours along the road. In addition, candidates must withstand a heating heat and the presence of tropical insects.
However, The doctor attends To residents today, Adam Louvs pointing it up Its alternatives will also see a quiet life rhythm And the opportunity to learn techniques that have not been used before in their profession.
Louz was hired in Brisbane in 2022, and Julia Greek was monopoly for paying the national media owners of 500,000 Australian dollars (about 290,000 euros). “My mother -in -La sent me a link to this magazine article: ‘Work of half a million dollars that no one wants“”, Says Louz. “When I looked at him and I looked at him, the first thing I thought was: where is Julia Creek?” He says.
Attract doctors to distant places
Julia Greek refers to a romantic terrain within Australia, a wonderful plaster of wide open spaces and orange dyes. Children practice a variety of sports and riding horse. However, This is a remote location. Students who wish to study their educational training should go to a boarding school in the city, and it takes almost three hours in a nearby hospital car.
Prior to the arrival of Luke in 2022, the city had been without a permanent physician for 15 years, a list of doctors to stay short -lived. This is a problem that affects rural cities around Australia and around the world. According to a government report by 2024, there is a shortage of 2,500 general doctors across the country in Australia, and the shortage of rural areas is expected to increase and increase. The hardest task of trusting medical professionals to go to distant places
Attract doctors This is very difficult because of the great distances that divide the far -reaching settlements to the rural areas of Australia. The extensive country is one of the less dense countries in the world. In neighboring New Zealand, about 5 million people live in a country of the United Kingdom The distance between the most people has made health inexpensives worse.
As for Janeen Fagan, the mayor of McCinley Shire, a local government part of Julia Greek, means that the city needs a good argument to attract attention Possible candidates. Fake participated in the Local Health Service Campaign, which hired Louis He offered to promote the municipality again when the status was announced in this parade.
“We have really a very good and very firm lifestyle,” he said. “Yes. Sometimes you have to travel long distances. However, How many people now point out that they want to escape from it?“He said more. There is no people. In fact, outside the network: Julia Creek is an electric bundle and broadband internet.” It doesn’t have to be forever, “Fake said. You have to try, “he said.
Know all the people of the city in the name of
When the situation was announced in 2022, some health inspectors claimed that the reinforced salary was not enough to compensate A doctor’s workload Alone. However, Adam Lows, the doctor who leaves the post, He confirms that working alone is allowed to learn medical techniques It was, when he lived in the city, he couldn’t. Thus, “I would have sent patients a few meters away” to create another option.
Louvs also fulfilled the dream of his childhood, learning to milch the cows. “The rest of the money is the rest,” says Louz. “One of the features I think This job does not take into account enough people“He says.
Three days after hearing the article on Wikipedia for the first time, the doctor demanded the work after hearing Julia Creek. Soon, he and his wife and four children were packing to go to the municipality. When he was in office for six months, he said that Louz was known in the name of the city’s “ten of the ten” people. “It’s like going back about 60 years,” he says. “Everyone knows,” he says.
However, at the end of her two -year contract in Julia Greek, The distance with his family has taken its number and plans to return to action in his consultation in the city. Louz will depart in May. Their nominations for their post this Sunday are closed. The doctor regrets this “incredible” city. “It feels very close,” says the doctor. “You have the opportunity to make a difference in fact,” he concludes.
