How a world-renowned Australian surgeon returned to his birthplace in Iraq, to help amputees to walk again.

Munjed al-Muderis was a young doctor in Iraq when he was forced to flee Saddam Hussein's brutality. He became detainee number 982 in one of Australia's toughest detention centres - not a good start to his new life in a new country.

Seventeen years later, he's a proud Australian citizen and world leader in the field of osseointegration - a pioneering prosthetic limb surgery.

101 East joins Dr Munjed as he returns to war-torn Iraq, which has one of the world's largest numbers of disabled citizens and amputees. His aim - to help as many as possible do the impossible - to walk again.

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Source: Al Jazeera