Eleven newborn babies killed in hospital fire that tore through neonatal wing
The Metro says Eleven newborn babies have died in a fire that ripped through a hospital’s neonatal wing in Senegal.
President Macky Sall sent his condolences to the mothers as he confirmed the tragedy at a hospital in Tivaouane, a town near the capital Dakar.
He tweeted: ‘I have just learned with pain and consternation the death of 11 newborn babies in the fire that occurred in the neonatology department of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in Tivaouane.’
‘To their mothers and their families, I express my deepest sympathy,’ he added.
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