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David Nott: Crossing red lines in Syria David Nott: Crossing red lines in Syria - The BMJ Skip to content * Latest * Authors * Columnists * Guest writers * Editors at large * A to Z * Topics * NHS * US healthcare * South Asia * China * Patient and public perspectives * More … Access thebmj.com - David Nott: Crossing red lines in SyriaApril 10, 2018 colleagues died simply going from one hospital to another to help with operations.By 2015 I had set up the charity the David Nott Foundation with my wife Elly to pay for surgeons from all over the world to come to London to get training on a course that I have developed at the Royal College of Surgeons called Surgical Training for Austere Environments. This course runs twice a year and we have at least 12

obstetricians were in Gaziantep recently for Systematic Management and Emergency Care in Obstetrics and Midwifery (SMEC-OM), a course organised and funded by the David Nott Foundation, Hand in Hand for Aid and Development, and World Vision International. The Syrian civil war has stalled the medical education of doctors and midwives, a further major contributing factor to the poor outcomes in obstetrics of the David Nott Foundation and we were proud to be able to support this thorough, detailed training.In the coffee area I meet Abdulaziz. Before the war, Abdulaziz was a surgeon at Aleppo University Hospital and lecturer at the University’s faculty of medicine. With a small group of others, he was instrumental in locating safe houses where emergency operations could be performed on wounded protesters

to mind Dylan Thomas’s famous poem “Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”Help has been forthcoming; donations of portable equipment, such as ultrasound machines, and the implementation of novel “virtual wards” allow experts to provide diagnostic and practical help to colleagues in Syria. Aid is exemplified by David Nott, the British vascular surgeon