
A team of clinicians from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is on an African mission to help those in need.
Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeon, David Dickson; Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Zakir Shariff and Specialist Hand Physiotherapist, Sara Dixon, all of whom are based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, are travelling to Sierra Leone, where they will help patients at the Holy Spirit Hospital in Makeni, the province’s largest city.
The two-week trip has come about through the British Society of Surgeons of the Hand (BSSH) and will see the three volunteers carrying out hand, plastic and reconstructive surgery to improve the lives of patients who would otherwise go untreated.