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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