Sir Harry Fang Sin-yang (1923 to 2009) was a Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, legislator and campaigner who promoted rehabilitation services, and he was widely known as the father of rehabilitation in Asia. Born in Nanking, he moved with his family to Shanghai in 1931 and to Hong Kong in 1938, was educated at King's College, Hong Kong, and took his medical degree at the University of Hong Kong before specializing in orthopaedics. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1974 to 1985 and on the Executive Council from 1979 to 1983, and in both offices he campaigned for the rights of disabled people and for rehabilitation. A well-known humanitarian, he co-founded the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation and for a period headed Rehabilitation International. He died in 2009 of complications from a stroke.
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was a Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, legislator and campaigner
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Fang was born in Nanking in August 1923.
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In 2009, Fang died of complications from a stroke.
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was a Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, legislator and campaigner
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He then specialized in orthopedics and quickly became an orthopedic surgeon.
In Group: Neurosurgeons and Specialist Surgeons of the Head, Eye, Skin and Joints, Biography [specialist-in]
He then specialized in orthopedics and quickly became an orthopedic surgeon.
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