The David Nott Foundation ran two HEST courses in Aden, Yemen in January 2019 with the support of Médecins Sans Frontières. These two HEST courses were the first occasion that the Foundation’s whole body simulator was employed for training and supporting it was a suite of individual models of...
David Nott Foundation ran a HEST course in Aden, Yemen from 10-12 July, 2016. 43 surgeons from hospitals in Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Lawder and Shabwa attended the three-day war surgery training. David showed the doctors how to treat a variety of complicated war injuries, principally fragmentation and gunshot wounds. ...
Note from the Chief Executive In September we took our Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) course to sub-Saharan Africa for the first time. The David Nott Foundation will travel to wherever in the world our teaching is needed and the doctors in Cameroon are contending with very challenging circumstances...
Giving birth is one of the most vulnerable moments a woman can experience. It can be anxiety-inducing enough in a well-equipped hospital in the UK, but the women of Idlib, Syria are literally having their babies in a warzone. The threats they face are myriad, not only to themselves...
A postgraduate student who has treated more than 25,000 people cut off from healthcare following an earthquake has received a prestigious scholarship to further his work. Dr Aban Gautam, who is originally from Nepal and currently studying for a masters in clinical research (MClinRes) at the University of Plymouth,...
Nott is a remarkable consultant surgeon who regularly leaves his day job at three London NHS hospitals to provide emergency surgical treatment in war zones. It bgan when he was moved by the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, and he has since treated victims of conflict in places...
David Nott writes for The Mail on Sunday Of all the wounded children of Aleppo who passed before me, the memory of one has lodged in my mind like no other. Madam. I spent the week before Christmas in a field hospital in Syria operating on many tiny souls see-sawing between...
Since the Syrian civil war erupted, the Assad regime has killed almost 700 medical personnel—and thousands more have fled. In Syria, “health care is seen as a weapon,” Welsh surgeon David Nott told the Independent. “You take out one doctor, you take out 10,000 people he or she can no...