Top doctor’s dash to Africa to help in famine

Sydney-based obstetric surgeon Dr Andrew Browning AM is to fly to Ethiopia to raise awareness of starving families as well as perform fistula surgeries
Dr Andrew Browning.

As Australians overseas scramble to get home, Sydney-based obstetric surgeon Dr Andrew Browning is “desperate” to leave the country to get back to Ethiopia to help in a worsening famine crisis.

Dr Browning will join his aunt, midwife Valerie Browning in an Ethiopian community where thousands of children and women are starving after drought, locusts, and now the impacts of COVID-19.