A STRETFORD doctor who saved a man's life by performing surgery with a rusty drill in the Australian outback has been hailed a hero.
Father of three Steve Hindley used the drill found in a school shed to carry out the delicate neurosurgery on a critically injured football player, at an isolated hospital without the correct equipment, at Ravensthorpe, Western Australia.
The operation - carried out on Dr Hindley's second day at the hospital - was a complete success and the injured man is expected to make a full recovery.
The patient, Hayden McGlinn, 23, had been left left critically ill after colliding head-on with another player in an Australian rules football game.
Dr Hindley was brought up in Melville Road, Stretford. His mother, Freda, was a sister at Trafford General and he has two sisters.
He is believed to have met his wife, Susan, at South Trafford College.
He has just emigrated from Cornwall and is due to take up a post as a GP at Tasmania, at the end of a month-long stint at the Ravensthorpe hospital.
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