Australian obstetrician and gynecologist Dr Catherine Hamlin died in her home in Addis Ababa on Wednesday March 18. Dr. Catherine Hamlin, 96, devoted her life to treating Ethiopian women with a devastating childbirthg injury and helped develop pioneering techniques to treat these injuries. Her death was announced by the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation in Sydney, Australia, an independent charity she co-founded, The New York Times reported. Dr. Hamlin and her husband Reginald Hamlin, also a physician, arrived in Ethiopia in 1959 to work as a gynecologist at a hospital in Addis Ababa. After performing surgery to repair injuries for many years in Ethiopian hospitals, Dr. Hamlin and her husband built the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in 1974 amid a Communist revolution there.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 21, 2020 00:11 UTC