Accidents In Senegal, a devastating hospital fire – 11 newborns killed

In Senegal 11 newborn babies have died in a fire in a hospital, says the country’s president Macky Sall On Twitter.

In a message published shortly before midnight local time, Sall expressed his condolences to the mothers and families of the deceased little ones.

The fire occurred in the city of Tivaouane in the west of the country.

A Senegalese politician Diop Syn according to the fire would have been the result of a short circuit. The fire had spread quickly, he said.

Town’s according to the mayor, three babies were rescued. According to local media, the hospital had been freshly inaugurated.

“This situation is very unhappy and extremely painful,” the country’s health minister said Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr said on the radio.

According to him, an investigation has been launched in the country to investigate the case.

The Minister of Health has attended a meeting of the World Health Organization in Geneva but said he would return to Senegal immediately.

Tivaouanen the grief news has been preceded by several other tragedies in the country’s public health facilities. In Senegal, there are major differences between health services in urban and rural areas.

A similar incident occurred in Senegal at the end of April. At that time, four newborns were killed in a fire at a hospital in the town of Linguere in the north of the country. According to the mayor of Linguere, the fire would have started as a result of an electrical fault in the air conditioner in the maternity ward.

Opposition officer Mamadou Lamine Diallo updated Tivaouane after hearing about the tragedy On Twitter how the country has once again killed babies in a fire in a public hospital.

“This is not acceptable to Macky Sall,” he wrote in a tweet to the country’s president.

Fair a month before Wednesday’s tragedy in Senegal, the news spoke in vain about the death of a woman awaiting caesarean section.

The pregnant woman had arrived in pain at the hospital in Louga, in the northwestern part of the country. The staff had not agreed to perform the caesarean section she had requested, as the operation had not been agreed in advance.

The woman died on April 1, 20 hours after arriving at the hospital.

His his death caused dismay across Senegal about the poor state of the country’s public health system. Health Minister Sarr admitted two weeks after the woman’s death that death could have been avoided.

Three midwives who were working at the time of the woman’s death received a verdict in connection with the case. The midwives each received a six-month suspended sentence because they had not helped the person in danger.