A collection of different deaths even have raised issues about maternal and toddler well being within the West African nation believed to have a number of the finest hospitals within the area.
Senegalese officers have arrested two well being employees from a neonatal unit the place a hearth killed 11 newborns final week.
The arrest occurred on Sunday, in accordance with personal Senegalese radio station RFM.
The nurse and a nurse’s aide had been on responsibility Wednesday night time when the hearth befell on the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in Tivaouane, a city 120 kilometres (75 miles) northeast of the capital, Dakar.
They had been arrested for “neglecting kids” and “endangering the lives of others”, in accordance with a report by RFM.
The arrests got here days after President Macky Sall promised investigations to find out the reason for the hearth. He additionally referred to as for auditing of all medical gear that accommodates newborns within the nation.
Well being Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr was fired final week and changed by senior ministry official Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye, the federal government stated.
Sarr, who was attending the World Well being Meeting in Geneva, reduce quick his journey to return to Senegal and instructed RFM that the hearth was brought on by an electrical quick circuit.
A 12 months earlier, 4 different newborns died in a hospital hearth in Linguere in northern Senegal.
A collection of different deaths even have raised issues about maternal and toddler well being within the West African nation believed to have a number of the finest hospitals within the area.
Earlier this month, authorities found a child that had been declared useless by a nurse’s aide was nonetheless alive in a morgue. The toddler later died.
Final 12 months a pregnant lady died in Louga, within the north of the nation, after ready in useless for a cesarean part. Three midwives got six-month suspended sentences for not giving assist to an individual at risk.
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