After a lengthy ordeal, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan has agreed to extending Dr. Johan Kruger's license for another year.

Moose Jaw's Dr. Brandon Thorpe, President of the Regional Medical Association is one of Dr. Kruger's colleagues who has been striving to help Dr. Kruger keep his license, along with a number of other Moose Javians who signed a petition to try and keep Obstetrician-Gynaecologist in practice.

"After lots of negotiations and lots of writing and a petition and analysis by the college of the current status, along with some letters to the Royal College of Canada, the Royal College has agreed to do an assessment on Dr. Kruger over the next year. They will then determine if he will become Royal College eligible."

Dr. Thorpe says that Dr. Kruger will be able to continue to work with his patients at his practice while accredited specialists in his field will be assessing his charts, practice and the way he practices medicine with his patients over the next year.

Dr. Kruger recently failed, for a third time, the oral exam given by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, which is the maximum number of failures allowed before putting a medical license in jeopardy. When the word started to get around that he might be forced out, patients in Moose Jaw started the fight to save his license.