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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]
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 ]
After Hamlin's visit to the show, thousands of viewers were compelled to act due to her sheer selflessness. The Fistula Foundation, which supports Dr. Hamlin's hospital, received more than $3 million in donations. Oprah Winfrey was so impressed by Hamlin's actions that she visited the hospital in Ethiopia to tape the second episode in December ...
Healing and Hope: Inside the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital Al Jazeera documentary, 2011. I trained to be a surgeon when I couldn’t read or write BBC Interview with Mamitu Gashe, 16 May 2019; Mamitu: One of BBC’s 100 Women in 2018 Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation profile, 30 January 2019.
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 ...
NFL fans have donated in droves to a foundation that Hamlin established in December 2020 to give back to children in the Pittsburgh-area community where he grew up.
Under Ms. Grant's leadership, Fistula Foundation has raised more than $140 million and supported treatment in 34 countries. [4] Fistula Foundation is a recommended charity of ethicist Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save. [5] In addition, it has earned a 4-star rating [6] from Charity Navigator every year since 2005, and an A rating [7] from ...
Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.