Thursday 19 May 2016


Biography Professor Fred Hollows





1929 - born in Newzealand

Professor and eye doctor
working in mental hospital (turning point)
1960 -  got  job in Australia 
1965 - head of the Eye Department in Sydney Set  first Aboriginal Medical Service
1970 - 1979  launch national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians
 treated 30,000 people performed 
A thousand operations 
prescribed about 10,000 pairs  glasses
By 1980  eye health programs  developing countries 
Peter Corris a close friend 
built eye lens factory by asking help from Australian
1989 - got cancer
1993 - dide











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