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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