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A extremely revered surgeon is combating for all times in hospital after being attacked in his own residence by a gang of thugs.
Dr Michael Yung – an intensive care paediatrician – was viciously assaulted by a number of attackers who broke into his residence on James St in Gilberton, Adelaide, about 4.20am on Monday.
The 62-year-old was rushed to Royal Adelaide Hospital the place he was positioned into an induced coma following emergency surgical procedure.
Police have declared the incident a significant crime and launched a large-scale manhunt for the gang of ‘a number of assailants’.
Nicely revered paediatrician, Dr Michael Yung (pictured), is combating for his life in hospital after a gang of younger thugs broke into his Adelaide residence and assaulted him
Investigations are actually specializing in a spate of break-ins at close by houses within the hours and days prior.
CCTV footage from houses in neighbouring suburbs exhibits 5 younger individuals roaming the streets of Dutton Terrace and Medinde, a few of Adelaide’s most prosperous suburbs, and trying to interrupt into mansions.
Footage from one other residence, taken simply moments earlier than the assault, exhibits 5 individuals carrying tracksuits strolling alongside the road earlier than making an attempt to interrupt into the house.
One of many thugs, carrying gloves and what seems to be a Gucci bag, will be seen trying to unlock the entrance door earlier than calmly strolling away.
It’s unclear whether or not the the group making an attempt to interrupt into the house is linked to the assault on Dr Yung.
Three residents of Gilberton, who wished to stay nameless, instructed The Advertiser that they’d just lately been victims of break-ins.
One in every of which reported that police had been patrolling the realm extra at night time whereas one other stated she needed to set up CCTV cameras after thieves jumped over her gate and stole a motorcycle.
Dr Yung was rushed to Royal Adelaide Hospital early Monday morning the place he underwent an emergency surgical procedure and positioned into an induced coma (pictured, police on the scene)
Patrol officers and detectives from the Main Crime and Jap District items are all helping in investigations whereas specialist forensic officers are inspecting the scene.
Anybody with dashcam footage of the encircling space from 3.30-5am or info associated to the incident have been urged to contact police.
Dr Yang’s 30-year-old son who lives on the residence was discovered unhurt and isn’t being handled as a suspect.
Different members of the physician’s household, together with a second son, are actually travelling from interstate and abroad to be by his facet.
A Colleague of Dr Yang’s, who now works as a senior emergency division advisor on the Girl’s and Youngsters’s Hospital, stated the crew are ‘devastated’ by the assault.
‘It’s incomprehensible… With all of our straightforward lives, that is simply terrible,’ an in depth good friend stated.
‘It is exhausting to explain how a lot we admired, and nonetheless admire, Michael.’
South Australia Police have declared the incident as a significant crime and have launched a large-scale manhunt for the gang (pictured, specialist forensic officers on the scene)
South Australian Well being Minister Chris Picton stated Dr Yung – the previous head of Adelaide’s Girls’s and Youngsters’s Hospital’s paediatric intensive care unit – had beforehand come to the help of a number of the state’s ‘sickest kids’.
Mr Picton stated the incident is a chance for the state to assist Dr Yang and his household in return for his unwavering work in paediatrics.
‘That is an extremely unhappy day for all the Girls’s and Youngsters’s Hospital and SA Well being household,’ he wrote on X, previously Twitter.
‘Dr Michael Yung has been there for thus many South Australian kids and households at their darkest instances.
‘Over the previous few years I have been witness to Michael’s unimaginable mind and compassion – utterly and completely devoted to the care of the youngsters of our state.
‘My ideas are with him and his household, mates and colleagues throughout this horrible time.’
The incident comes simply three years after his well being coverage professional spouse, Kathryn Browne-Yung, abruptly died in her sleep in March 2020.
Shortly after her dying Dr Yung created a $5,000 scholarship to assist Indigenous medical college students within the identify of his ‘variety, considerate and clever’ spouse.
