Tivaouane, Senegal: 11 new child small children perished in a medical institution blaze within the western Senegalese town of Tivaouane overdue on Wednesday, president Macky Sall stated. “I’ve simply realized with ache and dismay in regards to the deaths of eleven new child small children within the fireplace on the neonatal division of the general public medical institution,” Sall wrote on Twitter simply earlier than middle of the night (0000 GMT). “To their moms and their households, I categorical my private sympathy,” he tweeted. The tragedy took place at Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Health center within the delivery hub of Tivaouane, and was once led to by means of “a brief circuit”, well being minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr was once quoted in media studies as announcing. The maternity unit was once provided to deal with 13 small children.
“On the time of the hearth, there have been 11, whom nurses had been not able to avoid wasting,” the minister stated. However in keeping with town’s mayor, Demba Diop, “3 small children had been stored”. “My son was once christened the previous day. He was once best 9 days previous. The maternity ward was once complete and I don’t suppose there are any survivors,” one unidentified mom advised the scoop website online, Dakaractu.
Global Well being Group leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that he was once “past heartbroken with this tragic information. “I’m sending my private condolences to the oldsters and households of the small children who misplaced their lives.” “It’s with horror and nice ache that I realized of the dying of eleven new child small children at Tivaouane medical institution. Allow us to pray for those blameless individuals who have disappeared. My private condolences to the bereaved folks,” stated former top minister Abdoul Mbaye.
Newly inaugurated
Consistent with native media, the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Health center was once newly inaugurated. Well being minister Sarr, who have been in Geneva attending a gathering with the Global Well being Group, stated “an investigation is underneath solution to see what took place”. The tragedy in Tivaouane comes after a number of different incidents at public well being amenities in Senegal, the place there’s nice disparity between city and rural spaces in healthcare services and products. Within the northern the city of Linguere in overdue April, a hearth broke out at a medical institution and 4 new child small children had been killed. Town’s mayor cited {an electrical} malfunction in an air con unit within the maternity ward.
The twist of fate on Wednesday comes over a month after the country mourned the dying of a pregnant girl who waited in useless for a Caesarean part. The lady, named Astou Sokhna, had arrived at a medical institution within the northern town of Louga in ache. The body of workers had refused to house her request for a C-section, announcing that it was once now not scheduled. She died April 1, 20 hours after arrival.
Sokhna’s dying led to a wave of concern around the nation over the dire state of Senegal’s public well being gadget, and well being minister Sarr stated two weeks later that the dying can have been have shyed away from. 3 midwives-on responsibility the night time Sokhna died-were sentenced on Would possibly 11 by means of the Prime Courtroom of Louga to 6 months of suspended imprisonment for “failure to help an individual in peril” in connection to her case.
Amnesty Global’s Senegal director Seydi Gassama stated his organisation had known as for an inspection and improve for neonatology services and products in hospitals throughout Senegal after the “atrocious” dying of the 4 small children in Linguere. With the brand new tragedy, Amnesty “urges the federal government to arrange an impartial fee of inquiry to decide accountability and punish the culprits, regardless of the extent they’re at within the state equipment”, he tweeted.
Opposition lawmaker Mamadou Lamine Diallo additionally answered with outrage to the Tivaouane blaze. “Extra small children burned in a public medical institution… that is unacceptable @MackySall,” he stated. “We undergo with the households to whom we provide our condolences. Sufficient is sufficient.” – AFP