Senegal: arrests after the death of a mother and her baby during childbirth

View of the Amath Dansokho Regional Hospital in Kédougou, Senegal.

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A new tragedy is shaking the hospital environment in Senegal.

Three health professionals were arrested after the death of a mother and her baby during her delivery in the health center of Kédougou hospital, in the south-east of the country.

These two deaths are in addition to other precedents highlighting the weaknesses of the Senegalese health system.

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With our correspondent in Dakar,

A gynecologist, an anesthetist and a nurse were taken into custody in Kédougou on Wednesday night after the death of a mother and her baby.

The people involved are suspected of negligence and failure to assist a person in danger.

The Senegalese association of obstetrician gynecologists supported his colleagues, denouncing an "

 ".

She claims that the team that took care of the pregnant woman and her baby used the appropriate " 

 ".

And to denounce the difficult working conditions in this poorest landlocked region of Senegal.

But the story of the death of the parturient in the press aroused emotion in the country.

Especially since this death comes a few months after a series of dramas: the young Astou Sokhna, nine months pregnant, had died in Louga, last April, after twenty hours complaining of pain;

then eleven babies died nearly two months later in a fire at the Tivaouane hospital.

President Macky Sall had recognized 

” of the health system and ordered its audit.

►Also listen: A day in the life of Kolda Regional Hospital in Senegal

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