11 newborn babies have died in a fire at a regional hospital in Senegal, officials say, prompting outrage and calls for an investigation.
Visitors stand on Thursday in front of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in Tivaouane, Senegal, where officials said 11 newborn babies died in a fire.Eleven newborn babies have died in a fire at a regional hospital in Senegal, officials said Wednesday, prompting outrage and calls for an investigation.
The fire took place in the neonatology department of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in the western town of Tivaouane, Senegalese President Macky Sall“To their mothers and their families, I express my deepest sympathy,” said Sall, who is on a state visit to Angola.Senegal’s health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, told local media the blaze appeared to have been caused by a short circuit, Reuters reported.
Sarr, who was in Geneva for a meeting of the World Health Organization, said he would cut his stay short and return to Senegal immediately.This is not the first such incident at a public health facility in Senegal, where much of the population lives below the poverty line with compromised access to health care in rural areas.
“We sympathize with the pain of the bereaved families and urge the government to set up an independent commission of inquiry,” he
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