Published on 05/26/2022 22:02
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N.Bertrand, C.Marchand, K.Moreau, M.Lescanne, C.Bonneau – France 2
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Eleven babies died in a fire at a maternity hospital in Senegal. The public hospital’s decay has worried residents, who are demanding accountability.
A fire broke out in a hospital in Senegal. The fire broke out in a room full of newborns in an incubator. None of them survived. The incubators were hooked up to oxygen cylinders, which caught fire and caused an explosion around 9 p.m. “I’m in a lot of pain. My wife came here for a cesarean section and the child died (…) I couldn’t even see my son,” explains a man whose child died.
According to experts, a defective extension cord caught fire in the incubator room. An insufficient explanation for the families. “Sometimes there are flaws that we see in Senegal’s hospitals,” says Moustapha Cissé, the uncle of one victim. In April 2021, four babies died in a fire in Lunguère (Senegal), a year later a woman and a baby died in Louga (Senegal) after waiting 30 hours. The country is holding the health minister accountable.
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