Fred Hollows (1929 - 1993)

Time line:

Fred Hollows

• 1929- born in New Zealand

• 1960- got a job in Australia

• 1965- head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital

• 1970- helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians

• 1970-1973 treated 30,000 people

• 1980- travelling all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries

• 1989- knew he was dying of cancer

• 1993- died at home