“Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind…and they just go blind… they sit around in their huts.”

—  Fred Hollows

Culture and Recreation Government Site http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/fredhollows/

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New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist 1929–1993

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