Tivaouane, Senegal: 11 new child young children perished in a medical institution blaze within the western Senegalese town of Tivaouane overdue on Wednesday, president Macky Sall stated. “I’ve simply discovered with ache and dismay concerning the deaths of eleven new child young children within the hearth on the neonatal division of the general public medical institution,” Sall wrote on Twitter simply ahead of nighttime (0000 GMT). “To their moms and their households, I specific my inner most sympathy,” he tweeted. The tragedy befell at Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Health facility within the delivery hub of Tivaouane, and used to be brought about through “a brief circuit”, well being minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr used to be quoted in media experiences as pronouncing. The maternity unit used to be supplied to care for 13 young children.
“On the time of the fireplace, there have been 11, whom nurses had been not able to save lots of,” the minister stated. However in keeping with town’s mayor, Demba Diop, “3 young children had been stored”. “My son used to be christened the day gone by. He used to be simplest 9 days outdated. The maternity ward used to be complete and I don’t assume there are any survivors,” one unidentified mom informed the scoop site, Dakaractu.
Global Well being Group leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that he used to be “past heartbroken with this tragic information. “I’m sending my inner most condolences to the oldsters and households of the young children who misplaced their lives.” “It’s with horror and nice ache that I discovered of the demise of eleven new child young children at Tivaouane medical institution. Allow us to pray for those blameless individuals who have disappeared. My inner most condolences to the bereaved oldsters,” stated former high minister Abdoul Mbaye.
Newly inaugurated
Consistent with native media, the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Health facility used to be newly inaugurated. Well being minister Sarr, who were in Geneva attending a gathering with the Global Well being Group, stated “an investigation is below option 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 fireplace broke out at a medical institution and 4 new child young children had been killed. The city’s mayor cited {an electrical} malfunction in an air-con unit within the maternity ward.
The coincidence on Wednesday comes over a month after the country mourned the demise of a pregnant lady who waited in useless for a Caesarean part. The girl, named Astou Sokhna, had arrived at a medical institution within the northern town of Louga in ache. The body of workers had refused to deal with her request for a C-section, pronouncing that it used to be no longer scheduled. She died April 1, 20 hours after arrival.
Sokhna’s demise brought about a wave of shock around the nation over the dire state of Senegal’s public well being machine, and well being minister Sarr said two weeks later that the demise can have been have shyed away from. 3 midwives-on accountability the night time Sokhna died-were sentenced on Might 11 through the Top Courtroom of Louga to 6 months of suspended imprisonment for “failure to lend a hand an individual in peril” in connection to her case.
Amnesty World’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” demise of the 4 young children in Linguere. With the brand new tragedy, Amnesty “urges the federal government to arrange an unbiased fee of inquiry to resolve 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 young 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