Training War Doctors. Saving lives.
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Yesterday we held a 12 hour webinar for over 200 doctors working in Ukraine. Honoured to be joined by neurosurgeon Henry Marsh @MarshHenryt who has worked extensively in Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine
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Our Co-Founder David Nott recently travelled to #Ukraine 🇺🇦to operate on the wounded and help save lives. We are so proud.
Read his story 👉: bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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Six years ago, Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo was brutally attacked.
Today, we stand with @ActionForSama and medical communities around the world to demand accountability. Attacks on hospitals must end now.
Join the #StopBombingHospitals campaign 🤝: lght.ly/mafnp7
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🚨 More doctors trained 🚨
🌍 We've upskilled 42 surgeons and anaesthetists from the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway and beyond who are headed for the Middle East.
🏥 Their training will prepare them for addressing urgent medical needs in Gaza.
👉: lght.ly/n44c33b
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Did you know - on this day in 2019 David's memoir, War Doctor, was published. It's been translated into 5 other languages inclu Polish, Mandarin, French, Italian & Russian. Copies have been sold in over 40 countries from Australia & the USA to Pakistan & China #onthisday #doctor
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🌏 Last night at #medglobal23, our inspiration and Co-Founder David Nott was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
🙏 Thank you, @MedGlobalOrg, for recognising David's contribution to thousands injured by war.
💙 We'll keep going.
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5 years ago, David and Elly founded the David Nott Foundation with a simple mission: to provide the surgeons and medics working in the most hostile environments with the skills to save more lives. Since then, we have trained over 800 surgeons, benefiting 2.2 million patients 🩺
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Our report is in.
We were honoured to deliver war surgery training to a phenomenal 573 healthcare professionals inside and outside #Ukraine.
@marshhenryt said: "We must do what we can to prepare them for the possible horrors ahead."
Read our story 👉bit.ly/3Ckx51j
ALT Henry Marsh and David Nott training Ukrainian doctors in war surgery.
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Help Dr #DavidNott save lives by supporting his charity @NottFoundation. Donate here: davidnottfoundation.com/dona… #NotATarget #Aleppo
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"The real heroes are the nurses. To be with patients so seriously sick for 13 hours a day...I have never seen people work so hard."
You can read David Nott's interview with @christinalamb for @thesundaytimes here. 🩺
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If you're a surgeon or anaesthetist treating complex wounds in #conflict, we are here to help you.
To support hard-to-reach doctors in emergency, we turned our surgical course into online videos.
For English, Ukrainian or Arabic resources 📩: enquiries@davidnottfoundation.com
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We're so pleased that David Nott has been shortlisted for the #RSLChristopherBland Prize 📚
We are thrilled to announce that David Nott (@NottFoundation) has been shortlisted for @RSLiterature's Christopher Bland Prize for his deeply inspiring memoir WAR DOCTOR.
Congratulations to the author!
#RSLChristopherBland
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David and his team have safely returned from another surgical training mission in #Ukraine.
"If I was a pessimist I’d never be able to do what I do. You can always make things better for people.”
Read David's exclusive interview in the @Telegraph 👉: lght.ly/7bbjk58
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This year, we have been truly honoured to surgically train 213 #wardoctors in #Ukraine and over 570 online, following Russia's brutal invasion.
Thank you to every person that helps us continue with our mission. We cannot do this work, and help save lives, without you 💙.
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A big thank you to our supporters for helping us train doctors around the world. Well trained doctors save more lives and we couldn't be prouder of the work those we teach do in the most challenging conditions. We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2018.
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Our thoughts are with all the people of Lebanon after yesterday’s tragic events. In particular, our thoughts are with all the surgeons whom we trained in 2018 and their families.
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“Everybody has forgotten how blast injuries affect children, what gunshot wounds or the shockwave effects are of big bombs”. That’s why David set up the foundation to train surgeons from around the world in how to work in war zones.Please support us davidnottfoundation.com/dona…
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We might be a bit biased here at the Foundation, but David Nott's DID will always be our favourite! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07djz…
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We stand in solidarity with all in #Turkey and #Syria affected by this #earthquake and are ready to help our partners.
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We've reached a big milestone!
Over 1000 doctors have now received our training 💪.
We'll continue to work hard to build a global network of trained #wardoctors 🌍. Thank you to our supporters, we can't do it without you.
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Following our rapid training of 42 doctors headed for #Gaza and the #WestBank, we've just upskilled another 41 surgeons and anaesthetists with plans to volunteer in the Middle East.
@BBCNWT joined our latest training. Read their story 🔗: lght.ly/0f6hbcg
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For Day 1 of our #DNFAdventCalendar, we are so proud and excited to bring you this clip of @stephenfry explaining why he supports the David Nott Foundation.
Thank you to Stephen for his time and ongoing commitment to the David Nott Foundation.
#Donate: lght.ly/n1gnek9
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David Nott visits Turkey to find baby he helped in Syria bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea…
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THREAD: David has just returned from a two-week mission to #Yemen with @SyriaRelief. The team, including our faculty member @Ammar_Darwish1 and @mrortho operated for around 12 hours each day, and lectured in the evenings to local surgeons. (1/3)
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The David Nott Foundation has been named @wellcometrust Staff Charity of the Year. We are overwhelmed by this news, and the support and fundraising efforts that will benefit the Foundation over the coming year.
WATCH: Wellcome Trust director @JeremyFarrar, on supporting DNF.
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Many congratulations David on this wonderful accolade
Yesterday we awarded Mr David Nott the President's Medal at our Diploma Ceremony. Since 1993 he has spent several weeks each year working in a voluntary capacity on annual leave in disaster zones. Many congratulations on this well deserved award. #RCPSGCeremony
@NottFoundation
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We are beyond excited to present to you this message from our celebrity supporters.
Your donation, this festive season, will help to ensure that war #doctors around the world can learn the skills they need to save more lives in #conflict and disaster zones.
#DNFAdventCalendar
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2022. What a year.
From Palestine to #Ukraine, we have travelled across the globe to improve the skills of local surgeons and help them treat war wounds.
Watch our new film by @LionsTailFilms to look at our year 🎥: lght.ly/8j9n495
Thank you for your support 💙🌍.
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Last month, we upskilled 29 doctors from around the world to become David Nott Foundation Trainers 👏🌍.
Dr Mariam Aweidah, a participant from Palestine, shared: “Being part of the David Nott Foundation family, and helping it to grow, is a privilege.”
👉lght.ly/18o0b3c
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The wait is over, War Doctor is out today! With your support we’re helping many victims of conflict through the World. Help us train more doctors by donating davidnottfoundation.com/dona…
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Wonderful news!
We were delighted to welcome the warm and unbelievably humble David Nott into the office this morning, to celebrate War Doctor's status as a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller.
Congratulations again, David! @NottFoundation buff.ly/2F3nJuO
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Happy New Year! 🎊
We will keep striving for a world where safe, skilled surgical care is available to everyone.
Let's go get it.
#HappyNewYear
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Great choice @Waterstones War Doctor is now out in paperback. Make it your new year’s resolution to read it!
Presenting our Non-Fiction Book of the Month: David Nott's War Doctor, a powerful account of his time spent performing life-saving operations in the most challenging conditions. Find out more here: waterstones.com/book/war-doc…
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The DNF team recently returned from Yemen, where we trained 31 Yemeni surgeons across a 5 day specialised course. We'll be bringing you the stories of these extraordinary #wardoctorheroes soon.
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We have been proud to partner with Syrian NGOs to deliver our surgical training since 2015.
These organisations are now working tirelessly in #Turkey and #Syria to provide emergency humanitarian relief.
👉@AFH_charity @UOSSM @SyriaCivilDef @SyriaRelief @SBMSociety @sams_usa
ALT Credit: Action For Humanity (AFH)
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War Doctor has landed in the US! We are so excited to share David’s story with our American supporters 🇺🇸 tell all your friends across the pond!
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We were honoured to train 14 #wardoctors from Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine and Ethiopia on our latest #STAE course 🩺🌍.
Get a glimpse into the course and our new obstetric simulators 👇
bit.ly/32hzjkc
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"You will have to make very difficult decisions — which are those difficult decisions you actually make in war zones — about saving somebody's life."
Listen to David Nott speak to Terry Gross @nprfreshair about #covid19 and conflict zones.
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If you need to escape, David and @Sarah_Montague on the same stage might just be the #stayhome ticket you need! Here's a snippet to get you started, but you can visit our website to watch the full video🩺
davidnottfoundation.com/vide…
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After David returned from #Ukraine, we knew we could do even more to reach doctors in need.
We've now translated all of our surgical training videos into Ukrainian 🇺🇦.
If you are a surgeon in Ukraine, contact us today to access our life-saving resource: bit.ly/3Mw49XY
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🌍 Our global network of trained #wardoctors is growing.
🤝 We recently upskilled 29 doctors from across the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East to become David Nott Foundation trainers.
💙 We can't wait to share our knowledge with many more this year.
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Good luck to all of our amazing Friends of David Nott Foundation Societies this exam period! To all our future #wardoctors, you've got this 🍀💪.
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This is gorgeous
I have quickly illustrated the lovely story of when War Doctor David Nott had lunch with the Queen while suffering from PTSD. It was found by @rufusjones1
@jabberworks @bevismusson
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🇺🇦 Today marks two years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
With thousands killed and many more displaced, we stand committed to Ukraine.
We are proud to have trained over 450 Ukrainian doctors and will keep working until we've shared life-saving skills with many, many more.
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David Nott Foundation HEST training course concludes in Gaza today uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pa…
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Happy Birthday to our wonderful NHS! Thank you for taking care of us for 72 years.
Beautiful drawing by Charlie Mackesy 💙
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On #internationalwomensday, we pay tribute to all the female medics working in conflict zones whose identities must be concealed for their own safety. They all have names and stories, that one day, will be told.
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“The patients. The families. They’re all in my head.”
Our Co-Founder David Nott recently travelled to #Gaza to help treat the tens of thousands of people suffering from the brutality of war.
His full story 🔗: lght.ly/5nndaj8
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To mark International Women’s Day 2019 #IWD2019 we're profiling a truly remarkable woman, Samah, a highly-respected female surgeon. She is the only female surgeon in Aden and possibly in Yemen. We recently met her when she attended our training course
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We recently returned from training 26 Syrian doctors in Gaziantep, Turkey 🌍.
Many of them first met David in Aleppo, working together to save lives in underground hospitals during the city's siege.
For some of their powerful stories 📖👉: lght.ly/5b1hile
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We’ve recently trained 24 doctors in Idlib, Syria. With many hospitals now out of action, millions of people have been left without access to healthcare facilities & doctors have been left to face the challenge of saving lives without losing their own #charityday #wardoctor
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🇺🇦 Our commitment to #Ukraine's medical professionals remains.
📍 Our team have just returned from delivering #traumasurgery training to another 34 surgeons and anaesthetists in #Dnipro.
🌍 Ukraine's network of well-trained doctors is growing.
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Listen to the full interview with David and @marshhenryt at the 12 hour course we ran yesterday for 200 Ukrainian doctors. It’s about 15 mins in. @JonnyDymond @BBCNews @BBCRadio4 #ukraine bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00153…
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These sweet girls have captured our hearts! This is why access to high quality medical care is so important.💙
The moment they hold hands melts our hearts ❤️👭
Today's #WednesdayMotivation is @ICRC patients Zainab and Nigina learning how to use their artificial limbs at the orthopedic center in Kabul, Afghanistan.
📱: Mulkara Rahimi / ICRC
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Did you know...
🏥 We've upskilled 1417 doctors
🌎 From 37 countries impacted by war and catastrophe, such as #Syria, #Yemen and #Ukraine
💉 During 46 hostile environment surgical training courses
👊 And we are far from done
👉 More on our mission: lght.ly/lnicnda
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“I decided to start from the beginning and show the doctors how you can save a patient with very limited resources and equipment” This is the mission that we continue today at the Foundation by training doctors working in war zones #davidnott #wardoctor @W4BookFest
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🙏 As 2023 comes to a close, we want to thank each and every one of our supporters.
You've has helped us train 433 surgeons and anaesthetists and we can't wait to upskill many, many more.
Thank you.
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We are constantly amazed by our supporters.
Thank you so much to Erica and her fellow book club members for holding a coffee morning and raising £853 for us! 🍰☕
Every penny will help us continue to train doctors in need.
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Have you met Heston 🤝?
Our Co-Founder David and a talented model maker spent months meticulously designing Heston, our human war wound simulator.
The finished product? A one-of-a-kind teaching model showcasing common war wounds.
Heston makes our training truly unique.
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In February, we trained the largest number of medical professionals we have ever trained in one week.
With support from the Libyan Board for Medical Specialties, we upskilled over 100 doctors in #Libya.
Our course in action 🎬: lght.ly/c08e41k
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This week the David Nott Foundation is four years old! We will be celebrating our proudest achievements - all made possible through your generous support. Thanks to you, we have trained 682 doctors, run 18 courses and, ultimately, helped 1.3 million patients #mondaymotivation
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Youssef is a Lebanese surgeon who works 3km from the Syrian border. The majority of his patients are child refugees who suffer from chronic wounds and burns. Having just completed our STAE course, Youssef says he feels more competent performing plastic and vascular surgery
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This is Omar, an orthopaedic surgeon in Iraq. He trained with us in 2018. He recently treated a young patient in a huge traffic accident, who he thought might not survive. "The training helped me do the procedure; without it the boy may not have lived" #internationalchildrensday
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Tune into @BBCRadio4 at 1pm today for World this Weekend to listen to the full interview with David and @marshhenryt about the 12 hour training course we ran yesterday for Ukrainian doctors with @JonnyDymond #Ukraine️ #UkraineRussianWar @BBCWorld
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“Take a risk and do something with your life. Life is about taking measured risks” offers David in response to how people can have an impact #WednesdayMotivation #davidnott
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Early research led by David Nott in Aleppo and published in @TheLancet suggests war surgeons could saves lives by controlling severe bleeding with surgery and limiting blood transfusions.
This insight could help doctors in #Ukraine save more lives 👉: lght.ly/l9455mg
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#David Nott was interviewed by @Sarah_Montague last night at @saatchi_gallery to discuss #WarDoctor. Asked how many lives he thinks he's saved through his own work in war zones & through our programme of training local doctors "Possibly in the hundreds of thousands" he said #bbc
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In 2015, David and Elly Nott started the David Nott Foundation with a simple mission: to train doctors in areas of conflict and catastrophe.
6 years later, 803 war doctors have been trained over 28 courses saving countless lives.
Thank you for supporting us on this mission.
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As the devastating #Israel #Gaza war continues, we stand strong in our commitment to helping affected communities.
We're back from training another 37 doctors who have plans to head to #Palestine.
That's 79 doctors empowered to help 🔗👉: lght.ly/7dc4h87
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Over the past few months, we have been running a fortnightly webinar series to give our surgeons the chance to share surgical cases with each other and with our faculty. We are delighted that over 100 doctors from around the world have attended so far! 🌍
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Today is our 7th birthday! 🎂🎈🎉
We are so proud of how far we've come, but we are only just getting started 💪.
Watch our brand new video in full to find out how our work is changing lives: lght.ly/g7apbb3
#DNFbirthday
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Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus! Happy #StDavidsDay to all of our Welsh supporters. Have a lovely day, and thank you for your support of our work.
Did you know - David Nott was born in Carmarthen, and Welsh was his first language?
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We’re delighted that David has been named one of the BA 100 marking @British_Airways landmark birthday. The BA 100 are the 100 makers of Modern Britain who have contributed to making it the creative, open-minded and welcoming place it is today.
lght.ly/36hh48 #BA100
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We’re delighted to introduce Saeed, one of our STAE scholars. A surgeon from Pakistan who works 7km from the Afghan border, Saeed is on the front line, and regularly performs emergency trauma surgery on victims of firearms, terrorist attacks and bomb blasts.
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On #InternationalNursesDay we celebrate the courage and compassion of all the incredible nurses around the world. Thank you for everything that you do for us, now and always. 🧑⚕️
Spot on artwork by Banksy
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Bringing 54 medical students from across the UK together for our first in-person #FDNFConference will remain a highlight of our year!
We can't wait to grow our global network of future humanitarian doctors.
More on our conference 🌍👉: lght.ly/ndn3nje
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🇺🇦 Action in #Ukraine 🇺🇦
We are proud to have funded the paediatric #traumatraining of two Ukrainian surgeons, determined to make a difference in their war-torn country.
Their story 💙: lght.ly/48idgog
#wardoctors #healthcareheroes #global impact
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Happy #WomenInScience day! Let's hear it for all our female surgeons, who work tirelessly to save lives and help their patients in some of the most difficult circumstances #womeninSTEM
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We are proud to present this video celebrating 5 years of training war doctors in the world's most austere locations. Thanks to all those involved including @JeremyFarrar and @stephenfry.
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Despite logistical hurdles, we recently trained 34 doctors in Ramallah, Palestine 🇵🇸.
Our partner shared: "I love Ramallah, but we don't have control of our borders. We are very happy (for you) to come, to understand our situation.”
More on our trip 👉: lght.ly/mod7o8
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NEW: Our Train the Trainers course has allowed us to expand our teaching faculty to include more experts in various #surgical specialisms. This means that we can reach more of the doctors who need us in conflict zones worldwide. Read about the course here: davidnottfoundation.com/trai…
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We were honoured to be invited by @WHO to deliver our #HEST course to 30 surgeons in Moldova 🇲🇩.
Thank you to @WHOMoldova and the doctors we trained for your warm welcome, talent and thirst to learn 🫶.
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Are your alarms set for today’s episode of War Doctor? David reads the second extract on @BBCRadio4 Book of the Week at 9.45am today @panmacmillan @picadorbooks
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We are devastated to hear of the loss of life caused by this morning’s #earthquake and send our condolences to all affected.
Our hearts are with our Turkish and Syrian friends and colleagues and those responding on the ground @UOSSM @hihfaduk @SyriaRelief @SyriaCivilDef.
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(1/2) For the rest of this week, we will not be tweeting our own content. We will be using our platform to re-share the words of doctors, small NGOs and others who have spent some of the last decade in Syria, and have lived experience of the atrocities of the #SyrianCivilWar.
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Our Co-Founder David Nott shared his experience of #Gaza and the community's unimaginable medical needs with @TheEconomist.
"Gaza is a #warzone like no other."
👉: shorturl.at/uvyKP
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Last week we ran a surgical mission to Lebanon with @SyriaRelief to support Syrian & Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps. The work done by the teams involved everything from repair of blast injuries from conflict, skin grafts for burns as well as more routine operations.
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We're delighted to introduce our first scholar from the course, Lucien. He's a general surgeon in Uganda. He works in a rural area & often sees patients with severe injuries from traffic accidents. He tells us that many patients die unnecessarily due to lack of specialist skills
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Thanks @JuliaBradbury for sharing this photo, and for your kind words about David's work in conflict zones🙏.
Remembering my op with this incredible man a few years ago.War Doctor author & hero @NottFoundation. If you haven't read his book I recommend it. Operating on a terrorist at gunpoint, saving a young girl in Gaza as the bombs were predicted to start falling.. incredible stories.
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Join us on our 7th birthday 🎈 as we take a moment to reflect on our legacy so far.
🌍 34 courses
💉 976 doctors
📍 from 37 countries
And there's so much more around the corner 🙌.
#DNFbirthday
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Alongside our 5-day training course in northwest #Syria, we'll be upskilling a group of local doctors to become surgical trainers themselves.
This means a life-saving legacy will stay in country, long after we've left.
More on our upcoming mission👉: lght.ly/71f39p8
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