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Elinor Catherine Hamlin, AC, FRCS, FRANZCOG, FRCOG (née Nicholson; 24 January 1924 – 18 March 2020) was an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist who, with her husband, New Zealander Reginald Hamlin, co-founded the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the world's only medical centre dedicated exclusively to providing free obstetric fistula repair surgery to poor women with childbirth injuries. [1]
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, also known as AAFH and Hamlin's Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, is a women's health care hospital based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The hospital was founded by Australian physicians Catherine Hamlin and Reginald Hamlin , to care for women with childbirth injuries. [ 1 ]
Obstetric fistula is a medical condition in which a hole ... [67] focusing on fistula and particularly treatment provided by Catherine Hamlin at the Fistula Hospital ...
Hamlin trained her in how to repair fistulas, and she is now regarded as one of the institution's leading fistula surgeons, often training new post-graduate doctors. [7] [8] [9] The work of Reginald and Catherine Hamlin, and Mamitu Gashe, was recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS) with the award of its Gold Medal. [10] The ...
Fistula Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization focused on treatment of obstetric fistula, funding more repair surgeries than any other organization, public or private. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of December 2024, Fistula Foundation supports hospital and doctors in more than 30 countries across Africa and Asia. [ 3 ]
Dr Catherine Hamlin at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital, Ethiopia 2009. Photo: Lucy Horodny, AusAID: Date: 16 January 2009, 19:01: Source: Dr Catherine Hamlin at the ...
TERREWODE has partnered with Hamlin Fistula USA to establish the Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital. [1] After relative success in treating childbirth injuries in Ethiopia for forty-five years through the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the organization moved to Uganda. The hospital will target the approximately 50,000 Ugandan women believed ...
Dr Elinor Catherine Hamlin AM: For service to gynaecology in developing countries, particularly in the field of fistula surgery and for humanitarian service to improving the health, dignity and self-esteem of women in Ethiopia [1] Dr Phillip Garth Law AO CBE