The tragedy came about at a regional hospital within the city of Tivaouane.
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Practically a dozen new child infants died in a fireplace at a hospital in Senegal, the nation’s president mentioned Wednesday.
Senegal President Macky Sall introduced that 11 newborns perished in a blaze that engulfed the neonatal part of a regional hospital within the city of Tivaouane.
“I've simply realized with ache and consternation the demise of 11 new child infants within the hearth that occurred within the neonatology division of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in Tivaouane,” Sall mentioned in an announcement on Twitter.
The president, who's on a state go to to Angola, provided his condolences to the heartbroken mother and father of the brand new infants.
“To their moms and their households, I specific my deepest sympathy,” he mentioned.
Investigators consider the hearth was ignited by a brief circuit, in accordance with Senegal’s well being minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr.
Sarr is at present in Geneva for the World Well being Meeting and mentioned he would lower the journey quick and return to Senegal instantly.
The mayor of Tivaouane, a city about 75 miles east of Senegal’s capital Dakar, mentioned three infants have been saved from the flames, in accordance with France24.
The hospital hearth is the second in lower than two months to say the lives of infants within the nation.
In late April, a fireplace broke out at a hospital in Linguere, a city in northern Senegal, and killed 4 new child infants. The city’s mayor mentioned it was triggered by an electrical malfunction in an AC within the maternity ward, France24 reported.
With Publish wires.
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