Fred Hollows-Turning Points & Achievements

Turning Points -Holiday job in mental hospital:change to psychology, then medicine. -Met first wife Mary, came to Australia. -Took ophthalmology job in Australia. -frank Hardy's talk influenced investigation into Aboriginals' eye disease. -A researcher at a party invited him to take medical team to treat eye problems of aboriginal people. -On 1975 Fred's first wife, Mary died and in 1980 he married Gabi. Achievements -In 1965 he was head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital. -He helped set up the first Aboriginal Medical Service. -He helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians. -He treated 30,000 people,performed a thousand operations and prescribed more than 10,000 pairs of glasses. - He helped Eritreans to build their own eye lens factory.He asked Australians to support his dream. they donated more than 6 million dollars. -Human Rights Medal for his work in third world countries.