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Text messages 'save boy's life'

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A British doctor has saved the life of a boy in DR Congo by performing an amputation using mobile text message instructions from a colleague in the UK.

David Nott who was working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres in Rutshuru realised the 16-year-old boy needed urgent help after his arm had become gangrenous.

He had never performed the operation before but knew a surgeon who had.

Fergus Walsh reports.

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