Text instructions help doctor with life-saving surgery

A DOCTOR volunteering in war-torn Congo has performed a life-saving amputation on a teenage boy using text message instructions from a colleague in London.

Vascular surgeon David Nott was working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru when he came across the 16-year-old.

His left arm had been ripped off, either in an accident or as a result of the fighting between Congolese and rebel troops, and was badly infected and gangrenous.