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Mosul to Manchester: war surgery training

Posted on May 18, 2022 (November 19, 2025) by David Nott Foundation

Mosul to Manchester: The David Nott Foundation‘s war surgery training in practice: Dr Moez Zeiton is one of our surgical trainers. As a humanitarian surgeon, Moez has witnessed the realities of war, but never expected to see similar horrors on British ground. Here, Moez shares his journey to joining our teaching faculty and how he’s […]

A dispatch from Mosul

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Dr Moez Zeiton

The healthcare infrastructure in Mosul (Iraq’s 2nd largest city) was completely destroyed by ISIS and as the city had been held under siege for over three years, hundreds of thousands of civilians had suffered immensely. From the day of arriving at the trauma field hospital, I was working within a dynamic team providing trauma care […]