In spite of Hollows, the dark goes on

Updated January 7 2013 - 11:08am, first published December 29 2012 - 3:00am
Field of vision ... patient Dapne White, from Nyrippi, north-west of Alice Springs, is examined at Alice Springs Base Hospital.
Field of vision ... patient Dapne White, from Nyrippi, north-west of Alice Springs, is examined at Alice Springs Base Hospital.

Hugh Taylor's war on trachoma began 35 years ago. As a young doctor, he travelled the red dirt roads of the Tanami desert in a beat-up Land Rover with the late Fred Hollows, dispensing medical help to an estimated 10,000 vulnerable Aboriginal men, women and children with the catastrophic eye disease.

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