L\u2019Agence de Mise en Valeur du Patrimoine et de Promotion Culturelle (AMVPPC) rend hommage \u00e0 la Doyenne des m\u00e9decins tunisiens et premi\u00e8re femme m\u00e9decin au monde arabe, Dr Tawhida Ben Cheikh (2 janvier 1909-6 d\u00e9cembre 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
un extrait de l\u2019ouvrage \u201cLa Tunisie Mill\u00e9naire, une Longue Histoire et des timbres poste\u201d de Taoufik Ben Salah, paru en 2012, a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 par l\u2019agence , qui retrace l\u2019histoire de la Tunisie, depuis la phase pr\u00e9historique jusqu\u2019\u00e0 notre \u00e9poque. Taoufik Ben Salah, \u00e9conomiste de formation et f\u00e9ru d\u2019histoire et de philat\u00e9lie, a publi\u00e9 cet ouvrage sur l\u2019histoire de la Tunisie \u00e0 travers les timbres-poste, du pal\u00e9olithique jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la r\u00e9volution tunisienne du 14 janvier 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tawhida Ben Cheikh est d\u2019une famille originaire de Ras Jbel (Bizerte). Elle fut parmi les toutes premi\u00e8res \u00e9l\u00e8ves du Lyc\u00e9e de la rue de Russie (ex-Armand Falli\u00e8res) et la premi\u00e8re bacheli\u00e8re tunisienne (1928). Elle obtient son doctorat de m\u00e9decine \u00e0 Paris en 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rentr\u00e9e \u00e0 Tunis, elle s\u2019installe en cabinet priv\u00e9 et s\u2019oriente vers la gyn\u00e9cologie. Par la suite, elle contribue \u00e0 mettre en place le planning familial tunisien \u00e0 travers le service qu\u2019elle cr\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital Charles-Nicolle en 1963, puis la clinique Montfleury du planning familial en 1970. Entre 1955 et 1964 elle dirige le service maternit\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital Charles Nicolle. Elle dirigera le m\u00eame service \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital Aziza Othmana et ce, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 sa retraite en 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parall\u00e8lement \u00e0 l\u2019exercice de la m\u00e9decine, elle d\u00e9die sa vie \u00e0 l\u2019action militante au service de la Tunisie. C\u2019est ainsi qu\u2019elle est charg\u00e9e, en 1937, de la direction de la premi\u00e8re revue f\u00e9minine tunisienne, \u00e9dit\u00e9e en langue fran\u00e7aise \u201cLeila\u201d parue, en Tunisie, d\u00e8s 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elle fut, notamment, vice-pr\u00e9sidente du croissant rouge tunisien et membre de l\u2019Union des femmes musulmanes tunisiennes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tawhida Ben Cheikh est la ni\u00e8ce de feu Tahar Ben Ammar qui conduit en 1956 les n\u00e9gociations pour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance de la Tunisie et signe, le 20 mars 1956, le protocole d\u2019accord avec la France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Un billet de banque \u00e0 l\u2019effigie du Dr Tawhida Ben Cheikh est entr\u00e9 en circulation depuis mars 2020. Elle est ainsi la deuxi\u00e8me femme dont l\u2019effigie appara\u00eet sur une monnaie tunisienne, apr\u00e8s celle d\u2019Alyssa, la fondatrice de Carthage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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