Grace Kodindo
Chadian obstetrician-gynecologist
Grace Kodindo (born 1960) is a Chadian obstetrician who has championed improvements to reproductive healthcare, not only in Chad but in poor countries throughout the world. She has been profiled in two BBC documentaries: Dead Mums Don't Cry (2005), charting her efforts to reduce the mortality rate of pregnant and childbearing women, and Grace Under Fire (2009), reporting on her involvement in a reproductive healthcare programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Early life and education
Grace Kodindo was born in Doba, in the south of Chad, in 1960. She is the daughter of Jean Kodindo Demba, a government official. Like her four brothers and sisters by the same parents and her other siblings, she was sent to school. After completing her secondary school education at the Lycée Félix Éboué in N'Djamena, she received a grant from the Canadian government enabling her to study at the Université de Montréal where she attended medical school.
Career
On her return to Chad, she married Amos Réoulengar who became a member of the Hissene Habre government in 1982. They had two sons together but separated in the late 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Kodindo spent four years in Sudan where she trained as a gynaecologist. In 1990, thanks to a grant from the French government, she set out to reduce the infant mortality rate in Chad which was the highest in the world with 800 deaths per 100,000 births.
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