A British surgeon has told how he performed a shocking amputation on a teenage boy in the Congo following instructions texted to him by a friend. “I had never done this operation before but I knew a colleague in London who had so I texted him.

He sent me two very long text messages back explaining how to do the operation step by step.”

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