The program has been promised an extra $1.7 million to bolster its capital infrastructure to, hopefully, increase the numbers of rural doctors in the state.

Bedridden with rheumatic fever in the 1940s, and having already lost his father to the disease, Ian Braybrook says he owes his life to the big-hearted doctor who treated his family without charge.

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