Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege English pronunciation d n s m k w e i is a Congolese gynecologist. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gangraped by rebel forces. Mukwege has become the worlds leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape.

Denis Mukwege was the third of nine children born to a Pentecostal minister and his wife. He studied medicine because he wanted to heal the sick people for whom his father prayed, working at first in a rural hospital, then traveling to France to study gynecology at the University of Angers, after seeing the complications of childbirth experienced by women in the Congo who had no access to specialist healthcare.

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