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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 6 sec.) ; 158023816 bytes |
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This week on Talking Heads Peter Thompson talks to Dr Catherine Hamlin AO. Dr Hamlin's amazing work, spanning almost 50 years, has turned around the lives of over 30,000 women in Ethiopia. On Talking Heads she talks about her rewarding work at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. In the West, midwifery and modern obstetrics have stamped out fistulas, but there are still an estimated one million sufferers in Ethiopia. Such women are shunned by their husbands and families. Dr Hamlin has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize. A recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey program resulted in donations worth three million dollars. Oprah personally wrote a cheque for half a million.Now 84, Dr Hamlin is still operating and is about to open a fifth hospital in Ethiopia |
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Broadcast 2010-06-28 at 03:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
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Fistula.
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Hamlin, Catherine.
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Interviews.
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Obstetricians.
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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Streaming video
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Hamlin, Catherine, contributor
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Thompson, Peter, host
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