Tears in the Congo
Dr. Philip Dirksen, far right, an American doctor from Sacramento, Calif., along with Congolese doctors and nurses, performs the operation of a victim of sexual violence at Gesom Hospital, in Goma, North Kivu province, Monday, March 10, 2008. The doctor said the patient's urethra had been severely damaged by the rape, and despite her first operation, she was unable to control her urine. He performed the surgery that day to open her abdomen, and connect the tubes from the kidney to the colon, which at least would make her continent.
