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The Fred Hollows Foundation
Mission: "Facilitating comprehensive and quality eye care with a focus on cataract. Our primary audience is disadvantaged people in developing countries but we support the principle of access for all people."
In China since: 1998
Annual China budget: $125,000
Mainland China contact:
Baixiang Xiao 肖白香医生
Program Manager
5th Floor New Office Building
108 Er Qi North Road, Nanchang City 268 Fuzhou Road
Nanchang
Jiangxi 330046
Tel: +86 (0)791 637 9569
International Contact:
Mike Lynskey
Chief Executive Officer
Level 3, 414 Gardeners Road
Rosebery
NSW 2018
Australia
Tel: +61 2 8338 2111
Fax: +61 2 8338 2100
Mailing Address:
Locked Bag 100
Rosebery
NSW 1445
Australia
Activities in Other Countries:
Nepal, Vietnam, South Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan
Professor Fred Hollows was a celebrated New Zealand born eye surgeon who later took Australian citizenship. His professional life was devoted to providing eye care for poor and disadvantaged people who live far way from capital cities and treatment centers. He worked tirelessly in Australian aboriginal communities, and also in many developing countries such as Nepal and Eritrea. He also campaigned vigorously to persuade medical equipment companies to reduce the prices they charge for lenses used in cataract surgery, and helped in several countries to establish workshops manufacturing low-cost lenses. Fred Hollows established the foundation shortly before his death in 1993, in order to carry on his life’s work. Today more than 1,000,000 people worldwide have regained their sight as a result of the foundation’s work with local partners to implement modern cataract surgical techniques.
Since 1998, the Foundation has worked with more than 30 county and prefecture level hospitals in Jiangxi Province, to improve their capacity for performing safe, effective and affordable cataract surgery. Training courses are arranged for eye surgeons and ward nurses to strengthen their surgical and patient care skills. A major emphasis of the programme, however, has been to improve not just medical skills but the entire management of service delivery. Specifically, hospitals are encouraged to change their approach from treating a small number of patients at relatively high cost per operation, to an approach where a much higher number of surgeries are performed at a lower unit cost. Thus, training is also given to hospital administrators so that they can develop appropriate management systems, and village doctors are also trained to recognise and refer cataract cases to local hospitals. Moreover, trainings are followed by intensive ‘eye camps’, where a large number of patients are treated in a short space of time, in order to give the service providers experience of a high turnover of patients.
The Fred Hollows Foundation’s China Program is funded mainly by private donations.
Links
http://www.hollows.org
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