Anxiety and distress in Senegal after the death of 11 babies in hospital

The drama of Tivaouane (west), caused by the short circuit according to the first information, is the latest highlighting the shortcomings of the health system of this poor country.

It prompted promises of modernization and investigation from the authorities, and called for the resignation of public opinion and the opposition, especially Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr.

In the evening, during the big news on public television, the presidency announced that the Head of State had issued a decree to replace M. Sarr by Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye, former Director General of Public Health.

More babies were burned at a public hospital. This is unacceptable Macky Salltweeted, among many others, an opposition representative, Mamadou Lamine Diallo.

The Head of State declared three days of national mourning. He will take his return from travel abroad on Friday to go to Tivaouane on Saturday, according to his services.

Authorities have announced an investigation and justice has vowed to be unstoppable.

The scientific police is in the process of producing the materials discovered. We cannot comment on the real cause of the fire.said in front of a forest of cameras in the courthouse prosecutor Abdoulaye Ba.

Not far away, in front of Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh’s hospital, a mother who could barely stand up called a man she hoped to tell her where her son Mohamed, who was hospitalized there 10 days ago because he had body pain according to his father. God made the best decisionresponse of the individual, immediately picked up by the father Alioune Diouf, a 54-year-old driver.

You shouldn’t have told him thatreprimand by Alioune Diouf, as her husband falls.

Mohamed, who was baptized Monday, is the couple’s second child. Her mother went back and forth between the house and the hospital to breastfeed her. Her father arrived Wednesday to bring her medicine. The beds seemed fine to me, he recalled. He was alerted to the tragedy of the media.

What exactly happened inside the enclosure painted green, inaccessible to journalists on Thursday, the level of surveillance in this establishment which is relatively modest in size and manner remains established.

Newborns were gathered in the neonatal unit, probably in the same room, 11 or more according to sources.

The fire was reported to have broken out around 9pm (local time and GMT). This is caused by a short circuit and the fire spread very quicklyand Mayor Demba Diop.

This is negligence

In front of the hospital or on social networks, accusations of negligence include. But the mayor in the area made sure there was a midwife and a nurse in the room.

There was a noise and an explosion, it lasted three minutes maximum. Five minutes later, the firefighters were there. People used fire extinguishers, but products in air conditioners have accelerated the spread, he said. Both guardians died, but rose again, he said.

No negligenceHe decided.

Witnesses as well as the mayor indicated that several babies were rescued from the fire.

But 11 of them did not survive, authorities said. Relatives were unable to retrieve their remains on Thursday.

Anger erupted outside the hospital in a small group of unknown women.

This is negligence. The children were left with no one to watch over them and they said God wanted it. A mother is careful to entrust her child to someone, even if he goes to the bathroomvituperated one of them, while a man in about fifty invoked divine will.

Tivaouane, about 40,000 inhabitants, is the stronghold of Tidianes, one of the important Muslim fraternities that plays an important social role in Senegal.

The Caliph of the Tidianes, Serigne Babacar Sy Mansour, mourned the state of the hospital a few months ago. The art is predictable so much the degree of deterioration is beyond understandingwritten by his nephew Serigne Cheikh Tidiane Sy Al Amine in a forum.