Three Australian doctors have come to the rescue of an Aussie tourist who broke her leg in a fall at the Gallipoli battlefields.
The woman slipped and suffered a severe break to her right leg at Ari Burnu Cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula on Tuesday afternoon.
She was treated on the spot by three Australian doctors - including two military doctors who were part of her tour group.
Australian Air Force doctor, Group Captain David Scott from Lismore in NSW, said he treated the woman with the help of an army doctor who was on the tour and a GP from country Queensland.
Dr Scott said the woman in her 50s had suffered a compound fracture.
The woman had slipped as she climbed a rocky path back to the road from Ari Burnu.
"Basically we splinted her leg and we put a sterile dressing over the broken skin," he said.
The dressing was provided by the Queensland GP, who was passing and had a first aid kit with her.
Dr Scott said the injured woman would need surgery but he believed she would recover.
An ambulance took the woman to hospital, evacuating her through heavy traffic on the Gallipoli peninsula, which has at times become jammed with trucks and tourist coaches amid preparations of for the Anzac centenary commemoration service on April 25.
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