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Miramichi Regional Health Authority president and CEO Gary Foley has announced the recruitment of a pathologist and an emergency medicine physician to the region.

“I am delighted with the addition of Dr. Edith Nemec, pathologist, and Dr.

SalimAhmed, emergency medicine physician, to our medical team,” said Foley, who noted the addition of Nemec and Ahmed provides a full complement of service in their respective departments of pathology and emergency medicine.

Nemec will begin work this month.

She joins the health authority from Brussels, Belgium, where she has worked as a pathologist for the past 13 years. She received her medical education and training in Brussels.

“I am excited to return to Canada and especially the East Coast,” said Nemec, who grew up in the province of Ontario.

Ahmed joins the Miramichi Regional Health Authority from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where he practised emergency medicine for 14 years. He says two of his former colleagues currently working in Miramichi highly recommended he consider locating to the region.

“I was not disappointed in the area,” said Ahmed, explaining the friendliness and accommodating nature of the community was a huge factor in his decision to work in the Miramichi. Ahmed began work in the Emergency Department on July 7.

Foley added three more family doctors are expected to join the Miramichi medical staff in the next few months and the health authority is continuing to recruit for internists and a radiologist.