FRED HOLLOWS

FRED HOLLOWS

1929-1993

1929-               Born in New Zealand

   -1960            Worked at a mental hospital

Graduated as a doctor and eventually specialise in eye surgery

1960-               Got a job in Australia

1965-               Managed Eye Department at a Sydney hospital

Set up the first Aboriginal Medical Service

Discovered that almost all Aboriginal people in outback communities had eye diseases

1970-               Helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians

1970-1973       Treated 30,000 people, performed a thousand operations and prescribed more than 10,000 pairs of glasses

1980-               Travelled all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries

Helped in fund raising to support Eritreans build their own eye lens factory

1989-               Stared sick for cancer

1993-               Died