Eleven newborn babies killed in horror hospital fire that ripped through neonatal wing – World News

Senegal’s President Macky Sall confirmed the tragedy within the city of Tivaouane, the nation’s second hospital fireplace wherein infants had been killed inside the house of the final two months

Eleven new child infants have been killed in a fireplace that ripped via the neonatal wing of a hospital in Senegal.

Senegal’s President Macky Sall confirmed the tragedy in a hospital within the city of Tivaouane, round 75 miles east of the Senegal capital Dakar.

He tweeted: “I’ve simply discovered with ache and consternation the demise of 11 new child infants within the fireplace that occurred within the neonatology division of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in Tivaouane,”

“To their moms and their households, I categorical my deepest sympathy,” Sall, who’s on a state go to in Angola, added.

Mr Sall did not give any additional particulars concerning the fireplace.

Senegal’s well being minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, stated on non-public Senegalese tv TFM that “in keeping with preliminary investigation, a brief circuit triggered the fireplace”.

Mr Sarr, who’s in Geneva for the World Well being Meeting, stated he would lower quick the journey and return to Senegal instantly.

Demba Diop Sy, the mayor of Tivaouane, certainly one of Senegal’s holy cities and a transport hub, stated police and fireplace service had been nonetheless on the hospital, however didn’t present additional particulars.

Three infants have been saved from the flames in keeping with the mayor.

Native media stories that the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital had just lately been inaugurated.

The tragedy in Tivaouane comes after a number of different incidents at public well being amenities in Senegal, the place there may be nice disparity between city and rural areas in healthcare companies.

An analogous incident occurred within the northern city of Linguere in late April, when a fireplace broke out at a hospital and 4 new child infants had been killed.

The mayor of that city had cited {an electrical} malfunction in an air-con unit within the maternity ward.

Opposition lawmaker Mamadou Lamine Diallo referred to the April tragedy when he slammed Senegal’s President Macky Sall in response to the Tivaouane blaze.

“Extra infants burned in a public hospital… that is unacceptable @MackySall,” he tweeted on Thursday.

“We undergo with the households to whom we provide our condolences. Sufficient is sufficient.”

Final yr 10 new child infants had been killed in an enormous fireplace at Bhandara District Normal Hospital in Maharashtra, India.

Three to 4 infants died within the blaze, whereas the remaining died from suffocation as oxygen provides had been lower.

Workers rescued seven of the tiny tots from the Sick New child Care Unit however had been crushed again earlier than they might save the remaining ten.