A QUEENSLAND paediatrician who appeared in an ISIS video had applied to work for Doctors Without Borders.

Dr Tareq Kamleh, who spent almost a year working as a paediatric registrar in Mackay, submitted an application to the humanitarian group last year.

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It is understood the 29-year-old’s application was one of about 200 received by the non-government organisation from medical professionals last year.

The Courier-Mail has been told the rogue doctor never pursued the application.

“MSF (Doctors Without Borders) can confirm that we received an application from Tareq Kamleh in 2014,” a spokesman said.

“However, Tareq Kamleh was not, and never has been contracted to work with MSF.”

It is understood Doctors Without Borders no longer sends international volunteers to Syria because it is considered too dangerous.

In the video, Kamleh referred to himself as Abu Yusuf and claimed he had travelled to the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria to offer his services as part of his “jihad for Islam”.

The Australians for Syria Association president Dr Tamer Kahil urged Kamleh to come home. “He has been conned,” he said.

“It is unfortunate that there is a lack of medical services there (in Syria), but it is just not safe.”

It has been confirmed Kamleh departed Adelaide for Kuala Lumpur on March 10. If he returns to Australia, he could be charged with counterterrorism offences, including joining a terrorist organisation. If convicted, he faces 25 years in jail.

The Medical Board is under pressure to deregister the doctor, who yesterday still remained registered to practise medicine in Australia until September 30, 2015.

Australian Medical Association vice-president Stephen Parnis expected the Medical Board to look closely at the case.

“In terms of professional issues, it’s a grey area but I think it’s a privilege not a right to practise medicine,” he said.

The Medical Board has the power to deregister doctors convicted of criminal offences. It can also take action against those whose conduct is “inconsistent with being a fit and proper person to hold registration in the profession’’.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed a Queensland nurse was among a growing number of Australian medical staff believed to have travelled to Syria to provide humanitarian aid to casualties of the bloody conflict.

The Courier-Mail has been told the male nurse, from the state’s southeast, left Australia before the Federal Government’s counterterrorism crackdown and spent several months in the war-torn country.

Although it’s understood the man’s travel history attracted the attention of intelligence agencies, a member of Queensland’s Islamic community stressed he had “no links to ISIS”.

“It had nothing to do with jihad. He was there purely to provide humanitarian aid,’’ the source said.

“He was there for a few months, before returning to Australia”.