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Health Minister sacked after hospital fire kills 11 children
Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his health minister as the country mourns eleven babies killed by a fire at the neonatal ward of a hospital in the western city of Tivaouane.
Health Minister Diouf Sarr was relieved of his duties Thursday, and has been replaced by a senior ministry official, Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye, according to a government statement.
Sarr was attending the World Health Assembly conference in Geneva during the time of the fire at the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital, which occurred late Wednesday. He cut short his trip and returned to Senegal Thursday, the health ministry
Before his dismissal, Sarr told local radio station RFM that the blaze which engulfed the Tivaouane hospital’s newborn unit was caused by an electrical short circuit.
Senegal has been rocked by a number of recent health care scandals, including a fire last year at the neonatal unit of a hospital in Linguere, in the country’s north. Four babies were killed in the Linguere hospital fire, the health ministry stated.
Source: CNN
