Joseph Barnes (Irish doctor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish physician in West Africa
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Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
About Joseph Barnes (Irish doctor)
- Joseph Barnes (14 November 1914 – 4 May 2017) was an Irish physician and medical missionary who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940s.
- Most notably, he co-founded International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation (ICROSS) with Michael Elmore-Meegan.
- Born in Belfast, Barnes lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
- He became a centenarian in November 2014, and died in 2017, aged 102.
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