Diouf Sarr advised native radio station RFM: “Once we heard about it, we referred to as the control to determine what came about. We had been advised that there was once a brief circuit within the division. The nurses who had been there intervened.”
Sarr is in Geneva, Switzerland, the place he’s attending the International Well being Meeting convention. He has reduce brief his commute and can be returning to Senegal instantly, his ministry stated.
The fireplace came about on the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Medical institution within the western Senegalese town of Tivaouane, stated the rustic’s president, Macky Sall.
CNN has contacted the sanatorium, however has now not but heard again.
Sall declared a 3 days of nationwide mourning from Thursday and flags will fly at part mast all over this era, a remark from the Presidency stated.
The President additionally introduced an investigation to determine the reason for the fireplace, the rustic’s inside minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome advised journalists all over a seek advice from to the sanatorium in a single day on Wednesday.
“Past that, he (Sall) requested that we overview the entire apparatus and infrastructure devoted to newborns who need help with machines for his or her care,” Diome stated.
“We’re going to do it right here in Tivaouane and in the entire hospitals in Senegal the place there’s a neonatal carrier,” he added.
Senegalese Minister of Regional Making plans and Native Govt, Cheikh Bamba Dièye, described the deadly incident as “horrific and unacceptable” whilst urging a probe of the rustic’s well being programs.
