Doctor safety !

The Federal government solved the problem of what to do with a foreign doctor suspected of having terrorist involvement by dumping him into the Villawood Detention centre.
Doctor Mohamed Haneef had spent twelve days in police custody and the investigators were running out of time options. The government simply revoked his 457 visa on " character grounds ". He will now stay on secured premises until the investigation is complete.
The idea of terrorism infiltrating our medical system represents a new and frightening danger, but it also raises the question as to why are we relying on foreign trained doctors to run our hospitals ?
Surely we are depriving emerging countries of their best people if we are poaching doctors rather than training our own ?
It is therefore a step in the right direction to see that moves are under way to rectify our doctor shortage. For the first time, the University of Wollongong is operating a school of medicine - and presently eighty first year medical students are in training. By the third year, these numbers will have increased to two hundred and forty students.
Hopefully, a similar situation will emerge in other Australian universities with the aim of being totally self sufficient in the medical field - with the further hope that this country may be an exporter of medical expertise.
It must be disheartening to countries like India to lose valuable trained medical personell simply because they can earn salaries undreamed of in their home country - but available in the developed world.
If we train our own, not only do we reduce the terrorism threat but we help the developing world by keeping their trainees where they belong - within their own medical systems !