Hollows,+Fred

RESEARCH SCAFFOLD  || [] || [] || [] || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. || In 2005 Fred became aware of the need for an Aboriginal health service and set about establishing the first Aboriginal Medical Services. fe's work. Fred became aware of some of the serious health issues facing aboriginal people – particularly [|trachoma] and other avoidable eye diseases. The fact that these diseases were easily avoided, often went completely untreated and resulted in blindness shocked Fred and so began his life's work. || [] || [] || 'Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts,' he said at the time. So again he mobilised a team to go over and help. || [] || He attended medical school at the University of Otago (1951-1955), and moved to Wellington Hospital (1955-1956) before working as a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital (1957-1960). Hollows decided early in his career he wanted to specialise as an "eye doctor'", a profession he described as "good work", and in 1961 he went to Moorfields Eye Hospital in England to study ophthalmology and won a prize as one of the top studends. || =[] = = = || []# ||  || Fred always believed strongly in equality for all people. He was told about the need for Aboriginal health services in Sydney. He took up the cause, and helped set up the first Aboriginal Medical Service. There are now more than 60 across Australia.
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 * * * The Amazing Fred Hollows - Saving Eeyesites World wide. * * * ||
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 * ^  || Growing up, he always wanted to be a missionary, but a stint working in a mental hospital convinced him to follow a career in medicine. After completing his studies and specialising as an ophthalmologist (eye doctor), Fred moved to Australia. Within five years he was head of the Eye Department at a leading Sydney hospital. ||
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Fred established the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program which provided treatment to more than 450 remote communities.

In his words: 'When I've seen an opportunity, I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting...we've gone and done it.' This attitude helped him to inspire many doctors and other health professionals to volunteer their time for his national program to attack eye disease in Indigenous Australians.

Hollows said: 'To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.' || [] [] || 'Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts,' he said at the time. So again he mobilised a team to go over and help. By the 1980s, Fred had extended his campaign for treating avoidable eye disease and was soon travelling all over the world.
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He made several trips to Eritrea to train barefoot doctors to perform simple eye surgery and to help establish a factory to manufacture plastic intraocular lenses. || [] [] || Fred's dream was to continue to his work, so when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, he set about ensuring the dream would stay alive. The [|Fred Hollows Foundation] was established in 1992 and when Fred died in 1993, his wife Gabby continued the work of the Foundation. || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Well known persons working at the same time. || Dr. Victor Chang || Already known || [] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Sir Edward Weary Dunlop was a surgeon in the Australian Army during World War Two. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">He is legendary for his care of soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese. || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Why do their life is regarded as significant and why they are admirable. || The 'intellectual with the wharfie's manner' became an Australian folk hero, an iconoclast who inspired some and angered other. || [] || //It has been estimated that more than one million people in the world can see today because of initiatives instigated by Hollows.// His work has been recognised in many ways. He was given a Human Rights Medal, an Australian Achiever Award, made Australian of the Year, given an Order of Australia Award and had a medical foundation named after him. || []# [] || The Foundation continues to grow thanks to the generous support of the many donations it receives. To date, many tens of thousands of people have been helped by the dream Fred put into place, but there is still a long way to go. || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Establishes when and where the person died and the effect their work and values had on people. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> Fred Hollows died in 1993 in Sydney (six years after being diagnosed with cancer) and was survived by Gabi and children Tanya, Ben, Cam, Emma, Anna-Louise, Ruth and Rosa. He was given a State Funeral service at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on February 15, 1993, before the body was taken to Bourke (where he had worked in 1970) for burial on February 17. || [] || [] || Although most people think of Fred's legacy as the gift of sight to some of the world's poorest people, perhaps his real legacy is showing us just what a difference we can all make to the world and how important it is to care. In his words, 'To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.' || [] ||
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