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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 ]
Hamlin Fistula merely said "Lucy Perry has now left Hamlin"; Bloom herself said she was devastated. [5] In October 2015 Bloom was appointed CEO (Australia) of Sunrise Cambodia, a Cambodia-based not-for-profit founded by Geraldine Cox. [6] Cox offered Bloom the position the day after appearing on the ABC program Australian Story. [7]
The 2009 Australia Day Honours are ... For service to international humanitarian aid through the establishment and administration of the Hamlin Fistula Relief and Aid ...
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 ...
The medication, along with methadone treatment and needle exchange initiatives, also helped cut in half the HIV rate among intravenous drug users. By 2004, almost all of Australia’s heroin addicts in treatment were on methadone or buprenorphine, and the country had reduced its overdose deaths.
For service to the community through the Hamlin Fistula Australia organisation. Graham Alfred Bartle: For service to music education. Gregory Llewellyn Bassani: For service to music through the Australian Pipe Band Association. Kathleen Joy Batchelor: For service to music through the Bunyip Country Music Festival. Helen Gwennyth Bawden
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