'Kivu Seed' denounces the rape of women as a weapon of war

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In 1999, the Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege founded Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to attend to the births of women, during which there was a high mortality rate, but her first patient was a young woman who had suffered multiple rape and who had been shot in the genitals. Since then she has attended more than 54,000 women, girls (and even babies) raped as a weapon of war, a job for which she received the Nobel…