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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]
Vascular access steal syndrome is a syndrome caused by ischemia (not enough blood flow) resulting from a vascular access device (such as an arteriovenous fistula or synthetic vascular graft–AV fistula) that was installed to provide access for the inflow and outflow of blood during hemodialysis.
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 ...
In 2017, Hamlin-trained midwives delivered over 22,500 babies and no cases of fistula occurred in these births. [citation needed] The Addis Ababa hospital has trained 28 surgeons in fistula repair between 2015 and 2018. Hamlin says that they have "now treated 55,000 [women] and these are like ambassadors all over the countryside". [4]
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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 ...
A man was killed by police after they say he fatally shot his wife and their 2-year-old daughter, and also injured their two other children, in Louisiana.
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