A British volunteer is worried for his colleagues as two hospitals in Aleppo, Syria, were hit during an aerial bombardment and are vulnerable to further attacks. David Nott is a British surgeon and has worked in the hospitals and trained some of the doctors who treat people with the...
Back in January when I first had the idea of a march to protest against the targeting of healthcare workers in warzones, I couldn’t have imagined how bad things would be by the time we gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 7 May. We marched – doctors, families, medical...
On Saturday, 7 May, 2016, Dr David Nott will be one of the speakers at a march organised by a collection of medical charities to protest against the targeting of hospitals and healthcare workers in war zones. If you were horrified by the attacks on hospitals last week in Aleppo, which...
The first David Nott Foundation Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) course concluded in Gaziantep, Turkey on 17 April, 2016. The HEST course is a satellite of the Surgical Training for the Austere Environment (STAE) course which David directs at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The HEST course has a...
London, 20 April 2016 : The David Nott Foundation is delighted to announce that The Rt Hon. the Baroness Boothroyd OM has agreed to become the Foundation’s Patron. Baroness Boothroyd said: ‘I have for many years been a supporter and admirer of David Nott and the extraordinary work he...
By Raf Sanchez, Middle East Correspondent For fifteen hours a day, the flow of wounded men, women and children from the remains of Syria’s largest city did not stop. Aleppo residents – evacuated to the safety of the countryside after a six-month siege – came with bones jutting through their skin, limbs succumbing...
When Abdel Malek was brought into the emergency room in Aleppo in September 2014, his lower left leg was so badly damaged by fragments from a barrel bomb attack that the Syrian doctors thought they would have to amputate the little boy’s foot. The doctors that remain in Aleppo...