The medical staff in Glen Innes are to be bolstered by a new arrival.
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Krishma Gaznawi has only just graduated as a specialist in oral health from the University of Sydney. She starts at Howard Ellis’ practice in a few weeks’ time at the end of April.
Her dental qualifications mean she can perform fillings and extractions on children and oral hygeine work on adults. Since qualifying, she has worked in clinics in and around Sydney.
Throughout rural NSW, there is as shortage of dentists and doctors so her appointment relives the burden on the two existing dentists in Glen Innes.
Her parents fled from the Taliban in Afghanistan 23 years ago, and she was then born and raised in Australia, going to Strathfield Girls High School in western Sydney before university. She has never been to Afghanistan.
She said that when she was in school she wanted to have a career in science, and ended up doing the oral health degree which gave her clinical experience around Sydney, including at the big dental hospital.
She said: “I’ve been raised in the city but I wanted to do a different kind of work. I felt I could do more for the community in Glen Innes than I could in Sydney.”
She’s been looking for a place to live and said he knows that the winters are colder here than in Sydney.
