Surgeon awarded OBE in honours

SURGEON David Nott: has worked in many of the world’s troublespots

A FORMER Hulme Grammar School pupil has been awarded the OBE is the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Consultant surgeon David Nott is an authority on laparoscopic surgery and also volunteers in troublespots around the world. A member of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, he spends a few months each year working for the British Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres and has served in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Darfur region of Sudan.

He also helps the victims of natural disasters, travelling to Haiti in the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake.

In 2008 Mr Nott saved the life of a 16-year-old boy whose arm has been injured in a suspected hippo attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He performed a complicated amputation, removing the boy’s collar bone and shoulder blade and later described the procedure as one of the most dangerous he had carried out.