{"id":277807,"date":"2019-06-01T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiRWh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNi8wMS8yMDE5L2V0aGlvcGlhLWhvbm9ycy1kci1jYXRoZXJpbmUtaGFtbGluL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:06","slug":"abiy-ahmed-honored-dr-catherine-hamlin-at-the-fistula-hospitals-60th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277807","title":{"rendered":"Abiy Ahmed honored Dr. Catherine Hamlin at the fistula hospital\u2019s 60th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 29, 2019, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presented a citizenship award to Dr. Catherine Hamlin during the 60th anniversary of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, and Tadias covered the ceremony.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Abiy Ahmed honored Dr. Catherine Hamlin at the fistula hospital\u2019s 60th anniversary\" \/>\n<p>Hamlin and her late husband Reginald, gynecologists from Australia and New Zealand, had come to Ethiopia in 1959 and later founded the specialist hospital that treated more than 60,000 women with obstetric fistula.<\/p>\n<p>Officials unveiled a statue of Catherine and Reginald and planted seedlings with First Lady Zinash Tayachew, framing the hospital as both a medical and a dignity project for marginalized women.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health and history archive, the Tadias report dates the state\u2019s public honor for Hamlin\u2019s long fistula work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/06\/01\/2019\/ethiopia-honors-dr-catherine-hamlin\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Honors Dr. Catherine Hamlin&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazinePrime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Dr. Catherine Hamlin at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital on May 29th, 2019. (Photo: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1agL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755006,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277807\/revisions\/755006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}