Dr. Claire Karekezi will return to her home in Rwanda in July as the first and only female neurosurgeon in the entire country. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda took the lives of hundreds of thousands, including some of Karekezi’s cousins and aunts. Karekezi finished high school in Rwanda and then went to a local university on a full government scholarship. “I knew nothing about neurosurgery, I had no training in brain anatomy,” Karekezi told The Star, who had initial plans to study radiology. Many on social media, including friends and fellow colleagues, praised Karekezi for her work and for the inspiration she’s given others:

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2018 17:59 UTC