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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]
Dr Catherine Hamlin at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital, Ethiopia 2009. Photo: Lucy Horodny, AusAID; Orientation: Normal: Horizontal resolution: 72 dpi: Vertical resolution: 72 dpi: File change date and time: 19:01, 16 January 2009: Y and C positioning: Co-sited: Exposure Program: Normal program: Exif version: 2.21: Date and time of digitizing: 19: ...
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 ...
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 ]
She is a Patron of Humanists UK and chairs the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) trust. She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society. [ 8 ] In 2009, she became the chair at Great Ormond Street Hospital , and later in 2010, she became chair at the British Library , a 4-year term.
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]
These women live in isolation with a sense of loneliness and shame due to rejection by their own. Each of these five women chose to reclaim her life by taking the long and exhausting journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, so she could receive the medical treatment available only there. Upon arriving at the hospital, the women are treated ...
Kwast began her international career in Malawi, where she worked together with a gynecologist in Malawi who had been taught fistula surgery by Catherine and Reginald Hamlin at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. She established the first registered course for midwifery in Malawi in 1971. On leave from her work, she met the Hamlins in ...