By Karen McIntyre.<\/p>\n
After many years without a regular doctor, the Lake Bolac Bush Nursing Centre welcomed Dr \u00a0Pushparani Ravindranayagam to their team of health professionals yesterday.<\/p>\n
Dr Pushpa works from the Beaufort Medical Practice and will run a clinic each Thursday at Lake Bolac.<\/p>\n
Lake Bolac Bush Nursing Centre CEO, Jan Milliken, was excited to announce the appointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a long process and years of negotiations to obtain a doctor for our district,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe asked many regional health services for support and we are finally happy with the solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr Pushpa comes highly recommended and we look forward to working with her,\u201d Ms Milliken said.<\/p>\n
Dr Pushpa completed her medical Degree in 1992 and migrated to Australia from New Zealand in 2001.<\/p>\n
She previously worked\u00a0 at\u00a0 the Alfred, Box Hill, Maroondah, William Angliss and Mildura Hospitals. She completed her general practice training in\u00a0 Australia and has been a GP since 2004 and is a Fellow of\u00a0the Royal Australian College of General Practice.<\/p>\n
Presently a principal and GP\u00a0for the Beaufort Family Practice, she has been working in the Beaufort Skipton Health Service\u00a0since 2009.<\/p>\n
She is an RACGP college examiner and QA examiner for the RACGP for\u00a0the past eight years.<\/p>\n
Dr Pushpa has a special interest in training and education of medical students and makes a significant contribution to GP and GP registrar training.<\/p>\n
Her other interests include rural medicine and emergency medicine, women\u2019s health, mental health, paediatrics, preventive medicine and skin check and removals.<\/p>\n
Please phone the Lake Bolac Bush Nursing Centre on 5355 8700 to make a booking.<\/p>\n
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After many years without a regular doctor, the Lake Bolac Bush Nursing Centre welcomed Dr \u00a0Pushparani Ravindranayagam to their team of health professionals yesterday.
\nDr Pushpa works from the Beaufort Medical Practice and will run a clinic each Thursday at Lake Bolac.
\nLake Bolac Bush Nursing Centre CEO, Jan Milliken, was excited to announce the appointment.
\n\u201cIt has been a long process and years of negotiations to obtain a doctor for our district,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/dr-pushpa-Jan-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-lZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}