translated from Spanish: Denis Mukwege, the Nobel of the peace 2018 gynecologist

Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege is known as the “miracle Doctor” for his ability to repair, through reconstructive surgery, the terrible damage inflicted on women who have been raped.
Mukwege, of 63 years, established nearly 20 years ago the Panzi hospital in the city of Bukavu, in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was shortly after his first experience treating a woman who had been raped and mutilated by armed men.
In an interview with the BBC, doctor Mukwege recounted the horrible injury that the patient had suffered and told that they had not only violated it, but that they had also fired bullets against her genitals and thighs.
Your hospital now serves more than 3,500 women a year. Sometimes, the doctor performs up to 10 operations per day.
“I started a hospital made tents. I built a maternity with a surgical ward. In 1998 all was destroyed again. So I started back in 1999, “he told the BBC in 2013.
AFPEl doctor Mukwege speaks with staff and students at the hospital that created.” The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is not between groups of religious fanatics. It is not a conflict between States. “It is a conflict caused by economic interests, and the way in which is being waged is destroying Congolese women”, denounced Mukwege.
Eastern DR Congo has suffered more than two decades of conflict, with numerous armed groups fighting for control of the rich deposits of gold and other precious minerals in the region.
Many different militias have been accused of carrying out indiscriminate women of the region’s rape.
In 2010, a senior official of the Organization of United Nations (UN) qualified the country as “the world capital of rape”.
Female campaign to bring it back in September 2012, in a speech to the UN, Mukwege criticized the Government of President Joseph Kabila and other countries for not doing enough to stop what he called “an unjust war that has used violence against the” women and rape as a strategy of combat.”
The following month he was attacked by armed men who broke into his house and briefly detained his daughters as hostages.
According to the web site of his organization, a trusted friend who was security guard was killed during the attack.
He later fled with his family to Sweden and then Belgium.
Bbcregreso home in 2013 after local women conducted a campaign to raise funds to pay for their return ticket.
“After that gesture really could not tell that not.” In addition, I am determined to help combat these atrocities, this violence,”he said to the BBC in 2013 Outlook program.
“My life has been changed since I came back. I now live in the hospital and took a number of safety precautions, so I lost some of my freedom,”he said.
Dr. Mukwege lives under the permanent protection of the UN peacekeeping forces in its hospital.
‘It was operating when I heard the news’ in a brief interview with the Nobel Committee said he was in the operating room when the news of the prize came.
“It was when it was operating, and I heard that people began to cry and was very surprising,” he said.
“I can see in the face of many women how happy are having been recognized and this is really very touching,” he added.
A photo of Mukwege and staff at Panzi hospital celebrating the award of the Nobel Peace Prize was shared through Twitter: Outbursts of joy in @PanziHospital.
It’s not every day one receives the @NobelPrize.
But no time to stop. @DenisMukwege completo in the operating theatre.
a patient is waiting.
Our battle continues. @PanziFoundation @MdMBelgique #Panzi #DRCongo #Mukwege #NobelPeacePrize pic.twitter.com/oUjkGFVYSh – Seron Alexandre (@AlexandreSeron) 5 October 2018 crowds gathered at the hospital celebrated the award, Mukwege dedicated to the many women who they were victims of sexual violence.
Though he has fought with the Government of DR Congo, Government spokesman Lambert Mende congratulated Dr. Mukwege.
“We’ve had differences with (him) whenever he tried to politicize their work, while his work is important from a humanitarian point of view”.
“But now we are satisfied with the recognition of the Academy’s Nobel Prize by the work of a fellow countryman,” Mende told AFP news agency.
Denis Mukwege was born in 1955 in Bukavu. He attended the school of medicine on the other side of the border in Burundi, and then studied gynaecology and obstetrics at the University of Angers, France.
He was inspired to become a doctor after accompanying his father, a pastor, to numerous visits to see the sick.
He has received many international prizes, including the United Nations 2008 human rights award. And in 2009 was named African of the year.
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Original source in Spanish