biography
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Hollows, Fred(erick) Cossom
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| lived:
| (1929–93)
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| biography:
| Ophthalmologist, born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied in New Zealand and in Britain, and became associate professor at the University of New South Wales and chairman of ophthalmology at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He was famed for his contribution to the prevention and treatment of blinding eye infections, especially trachoma, among Australian Aborigines, Eritreans, and Vietnamese. In Eritrea he trained doctors to perform simple eye surgery, and helped establish a factory to manufacture plastic intra-ocular lenses. He planned similar projects for Vietnam, Bangladesh, Burma, and Nepal. In 1991 he was named Australian of the Year, and in 1993 won the Rotary International Award for Human Understanding. |
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