Top 3 Fred Hollows Quotes

New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist (1929-1993)

Frederick Cossom Hollows AC (9 April 1929 – 10 February 1993) was a New Zealand-born ophthalmologist and humanitarian who devoted a great part of his life to the eradication of curable blindness among the underprivileged communities of Oceania, Asia and Africa.

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Birth Name: Frederick Cossom Hollows

Alternative Names: Frederick Hollows

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Every eye is an eye. When you are doing surgery there, that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the Prime Minister or King.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.