Dr Devinder Grewal has been delivering medical care to isolated and rural areas of the eastern Australian states since the 70s – and he’s not hung up the stethoscope yet.
Devinder opened his own general practice in Port Augusta in 1974. Over the next ten years, he delivered hundreds of babies and provided comprehensive medical services through his practice, in a time when that was rare.
Realising there were many communities around Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales without any medical professionals, Devinder recruited doctors to these regions and ensured they had training and support. He also founded the first seven-day clinics in Port Augusta and Whyalla.
Devinder helped the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the Aboriginal Health Service and undertook ad hoc duties with local hospitals, only stopping work in the A&E at Port August Base Hospital at 72. Today, at 82, he still supervises doctors at his Port August practice.