Tim Moriarty, 47, started work as a clinical fellow at Kettering General Hospital this month and will be spending six days in Turkey in October with other British doctors.

He said: "I'm really looking forward to the work and want to help put something back.

"I enjoy teaching and almost look at this like a debt to society.
"In the UK we have such a good health care system compared to some other countries in the world.

"We take so much for granted including the care that women and babies receive during childbirth.

"About 30 per cent of people in the UK need a doctor to help them deliver the baby."

Mr Moriarty, who lives near Daventry, said that worldwide one in nine women dies during childbirth.

He said: "These Iraqi doctors are not planning to leave the country but want to return there to help the people there.

"I think this is fantastic and I'm very keen to help pass on my skills and I hope it is something I will be able to do again."

Mr Moriarty, 47, recently finished his obstetrician and gynaecology training in London.

He said: "I really like teaching people how to deliver babies.
"I've only been at Kettering General Hospital since September and I'm very grateful to the trust for allowing me to go on this trip."

The chance to go to Istanbul to teach Iraqi medical staff came about after Mr Moriarty attended a Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists event in Liverpool, where he had the opportunity to use his teaching skills.

He said: "I think they were impressed with my teaching and I kept in contact with them. I had an email from a man
in Bradford about the chance for me to go and teach in Istanbul."

Mr Moriarty will travel to Turkey on October 24.