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

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Fred Hollows
Age: 63 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 9
Died: 1993
Died: February 10
Eye Surgeon
Ophthalmologist
Surgeon
Dunedin
New Zealand
Frederick Cossom Hollows
Frederick Hollows
Around
Huts
Years
Africa
People
Million
Blind
Millions
Year
Half
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