Fred Cossom Hollows Research Paper

Frederick “Fred” Cossom Hollows was a humanitarian and an ophthalmologist. He was born on 9 April 1929, in Dunedin, in New Zealand. In 1965, when he worked in Australia at The Prince of Wales Hospital he did the first successful cataract operation in the world. After this operation he became famous. From 1965-1992, Fred was Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. In 1981, he won the Advance Australia award of Aboriginal eye care. In 1985, he was a member at The World Health Organisation. In 1990, he received a Human Rights Medal. In 1992, in Vietnam he made a lot of free cataract operations for the poor people. In addition, he taught the cataract surgeries there how can make successful cataract operations.