When I get home, the girls run towards me asking about my day. It’s the only thing that helps me forget the patients.
Yves is one of the newly qualified plastic surgeons to have completed the training programme. The process has been exhausting, and he has struggled to balance the demands of work with the needs of his young family. The long hours he must spend at the hospital have become increasingly challenging, as his close relationship with his family suffers.
He is inspired by Faustin, yet he now fully recognises the scale of the task ahead – and the sacrifice it requires. Despite working every day, he only earns $350 a month, and he feels unable to provide for his family in the way he wishes.
At the hospital, the need is even greater, and when he is offered the chance to specialise in craniofacial reconstructive plastic surgery in Toronto, he realises he could gain skills that no one else in Rwanda possesses – skills that could ultimately help his country.
But accepting the opportunity means saying goodbye to his family and moving to Canada for at least a few years. Should he sacrifice himself for the greater good – and what part should his family play in that sacrifice?