Dr Shabnam Parkar is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. After many years treating children in the UK and providing medical care in Nepal, Dr Parkar has joined our team as a surgical trainer. Last month, she led paediatrics and co-led abdominal surgery on our Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) course […]
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DNF Faculty Member Ammar Darwish shares his experience of operating in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis: “The Yemeni medical staff in Marib sent a call for assistance as they have been extremely overwhelmed with injured patients from the war” David and Ammar were called up by Syria Relief to assist the medical staff in the […]
I have just returned from my first mission with Medicins Sans Frontieres in the Yemen and I can definitely say it was a life-changing experience. I was working in the emergency department of a hospital in the north for three and a half months. The biggest difference between working in an A&E in an NHS hospital in Manchester and […]