Odette Nyiramilimo

Odette Nyiramilimo (born 1956) is a Rwandan physician and senator. She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Paul Kagame from March 2000 to October 2003.

Odette Nyiramilimo
Odette Nyiramilimo in 2017
NationalityRwandan
Occupationphysician, senator

Background

Nyiramilimo, an ethnic Tutsi, was born in Kinunu, Gisenyi prefecture in 1956. She is seventeenth of her father's eighteen children, born to his second wife.

Education

She finished the university in 1981 as a medical doctor in National university of rwanda Butare .

Personal life

At age three many members of her family were killed in the power struggles following independence. After an eventful childhood, which included expulsion from school because she was Tutsi,

She later married Jean-Baptiste Gasasira, also a physician, and the two later founded a private maternity and pediatrics practice in Kigali called Le Bon Samaritain ("Good Samaritan")[1]

Her life story was profiled at length in Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Familie

Career

She worked in Kibuye hospital[2]

She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Rwanda from March 2000 to October 2003.

References
  1. Republic, The New (2006-07-19). "Q & A: Odette Nyiramilimo". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  2. Republic, The New (2006-07-19). "Q & A: Odette Nyiramilimo". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2021-11-22.


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