الاثنين، 13 أبريل 2020

Catherine Hamlin obituary

Doctor who pioneered the treatment of obstetric fistula in Ethiopia

When the obstetrician Catherine Hamlin, who has died aged 96, first arrived in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in the late 1950s, she knew she wanted to make a difference.

She just did not expect it to be through decades of successful treatment of a type of birth injury she had assumed was an academic rarity, first at a general government hospital, then at a small hospital built by herself and her husband, Reg, and eventually through a national network of six hospitals, 80 midwifery clinics, the Hamlin College of Midwives, and a rehabilitation centre.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3b6Epzo

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