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Fred Hollows (born 1929 in Dunedin, died 1993 in Sydney) was an opthalmologist who specialised in the treatment of diseases of the eye.
Hollows spent a lot of his time studying and treating an eye disease called 'trachoma', which causes blindness if it is not treated quickly.
Hollows helped set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and arranged for teams of people to travel all over the country to treat trachoma. He also helped to train doctors for work in Eritrea in Africa and set up a program to treat cataracts.
His work has been recognised in many ways. He was given a Human Rights Medal, an Australian Achiever Award, made Australian of the Year, given an Order of Australia Award and had a medical foundation named after him.
He died of cancer in 1993.
