This 17th of February comes out on our screens The man who repairs women, The anger of Hippocrates, documentary dedicated to Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist who operated nearly 30,000 Congolese victims of sexual violence and mutilation.

The vocation of Denis Mukwege

The son of a Pentecostal pastor, he grew up in the Congo. And finds his way by enrolling, in 1976, in the faculty of medicine of Burundi, before specializing in gynecology, in 1984, to the university of Angers, in France.

On his return to the Congo, Denis Mukwege realizes the serious situation in which the country is bogged down. He asks for tents and equipment at UNICEF but these will be plundered. It is then that it rehabilitates two buildings that will become the hospital of Panzi. He thought of installing an operating theater and a maternity ward, but his destiny would lead him elsewhere. He who wanted to help women to give birth to children safely will ultimately become the savior of victims of sexual violence.

Multinational genital mutilation cases

His first patient will show him the way forward. " She upset me. Instead of doing a caesarean section to give birth, I operated a 30-year-old woman who had bullet wounds on the thighs, multiple wounds on the genitals, "he said to Madame Figaro . It was only later that she confessed to him that she had been raped and tortured. Denis Mukwege, still naive, thought the young woman had fallen on an isolated rapist. But the more the patients pass through his study, the more he realizes the situation of the region.

We see what even a surgeon's eye can get used to seeing

he used to say.

Denis Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the late 1990s, where he discovered an appalling reality: the planned destruction of the genital organs of women and even babies, as well as rape as war weapon. In this highly coveted region of the Kivu in the east of the country, Rwandan soldiers and Congolese rebels are violent to incite families to abandon their land.

Denis Mukwege dedicates his life to repairing the victims of rape. Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, this charismatic doctor operated nearly 30,000 Congolese women of all ages. Beast of the government, he was the victim of several assassination attempts and lives under protection of the Blue Helmets.

" Where are the men ? "He indignantly. At Panzi Hospital, women also learn about their rights, and a generation of feminist activists is emerging in the Congo. "Dr. Mukwege is a benevolent father substitute," says Thierry Michel, co-director of the documentary.

Discover the trailer for the documentary The Man Who Repairs Women, The Wrath of Hippocrates