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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 ]
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]
She joined the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, founded by the Hamlins in 1974; [6] initially, Gashe would hand Hamlin the requested medical implements. After a couple of years she started suturing and then moved on to undertake surgery. Hamlin trained her in how to repair fistulas, and she is now regarded as one of the institution's leading ...
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: ...
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