Agnes Binagwaho: A Doctor with Sassitude
"Years before she became the health minister of Rwanda, Agnes Binagwaho
tried to lock a fellow pediatrician in a hospital room. She saw a doctor
in an examining room with a mother who held her sick daughter in her
arms. And he was asleep. Binagwaho was appalled. She examined the girl
herself in a separate room and then asked a nurse to shut the door on
the doctor, who wouldn't be able to get out without the nurse's key. The
medical staff wasn't too pleased. "They found me more guilty for trying
to close him in that room for the night than him for mistreating the
kid who could have died," she says. Throughout her life, Binagwaho
affectionately called "Dr. Agnes" by colleagues has been unafraid to
defy authority by speaking her mind. In the process, she has helped to
transform Rwanda's health system." This NPR story shares more.
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