David Malcolm Nott
 David Nott    (Surgeon, pilot, businessman) | |
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| Born | David Malcolm Nott 1956 (age 60–61), Carmarthen, Wales |
| Alma mater | Hulme Grammar School, University of St Andrews, University of Manchester |
| Member of | World for Libya |
David Malcolm Nott (born 1956) is a Welsh consultant surgeon who works mainly in London hospitals as a general and vascular surgeon but also volunteers to work in disaster and war zones, and also organises training for others in emergency work such as the charity World for Libya.[1]
Pilot Surgeon
The son of an orthopaedic surgeon, David Nott studied medicine at the Universities of St. Andrews and Manchester, graduating in 1981. He then learned to fly, gaining both a private pilot licence and a commercial pilot licence becoming an air transport pilot and flew for Hamlin Jet in Luton for about ten years, before returning to medicine and becoming a surgeon.
War zones
David Nott began working in disaster and war zones in 1993, when he saw footage of the war in Sarajevo. He has worked in disaster and war zones for several weeks each year since then, working as a volunteer surgeon for agencies such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the Red Cross. He has also served in a similar capacity for the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, where he holds the rank of Wing Commander. The locations have included Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chad, Darfur, Gaza, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Sierra Leone and opposition-held areas of Syria. Between 2013 and 2014 Nott trained and assisted medical students and other doctors to conduct trauma surgeries in rebel-held East Aleppo.[2]
"Dying children"
In December 2017, David Nott and fellow director Hamish de Bretton-Gordon of Doctors Under Fire highlighted the case of seven children with curable cancer who were said to be dying in Ghouta, Syria, for want of drugs and nourishment. They claimed Union of Syrian Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM) hospitals in Ghouta were on their knees with very few medicines left, and that kind words for the dying children were the only palliative care available.[3]
External links
- The David Nott Foundation – his charitable foundation which provides medical training for disasters and wars
- Desert Island Discs – his favourite records and interview by Kirsty Young, first broadcast on 5 June 2016
References
- ↑ "World for Libya Limited"
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