Doctors from outside the EU/EEA, who have been effectively barred from taking up postgraduate training places, will soon be able to under plans announced on Sunday by Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly. For more on this story we heard from Dr.Liqa ur Rehman  Co-Founder, Train Us For Ireland, General Secretary of the Association of Irish Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons Ireland, and IMO NCHD committee member.

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