Remembered: Dr Catherine Hamlin, the ‘marvel’ who served thousands

Australian Associated Press

Far from the comfort of her privileged childhood in Sydney, Dr Catherine Hamlin devoted her life to helping African women overcome debilitating birth injuries.

For 60 years, Dr Hamlin lived in Ethiopia, where she and her husband, New Zealander Dr Reg Hamlin, established clinics to help the nation’s desperately poor women overcome obstetric fistulas suffered in childbirth.