Senegal: Doctors' union calls for strike after health workers arrested
View of the Amath Dansokho regional hospital in Kédougou, Senegal.
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The affair of the young woman and her baby, who died during childbirth in Kédougou, in the south-east of the country, continues to make noise.
At a press conference on Sunday, the Autonomous Syndicate of Doctors of Senegal called for a 48-hour strike starting Monday, September 5 to demand the release of the three arrested health workers.
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With our correspondent in Dakar
,
Théa Ollivier
All health structures in Senegal will be on strike for 48 hours from this Monday, September 5.
Amadou Yeri Camara, secretary general of the autonomous doctors' union, said he demanded the release of the gynecologist, anesthetist and nurse who were
charged with homicide following the death
of the mother and her newborn baby. .
“
If this situation does not settle, these are repetitive slogans that will go crescendo.
We will not accept that we put doctors in prison for a yes or a no.
»
The Ministry of Health detailed in a press release the chronology of events established thanks to the audit carried out in the field.
A document that exonerates the three arrested health workers, according to Dr. Ibrahim Aidibé, president of the Association of Obstetrician Gynecologists (ASGO).
He again challenged the prosecutor's press release, which evokes "
strong medical negligence
".
“
We do not refuse the opening of a judicial investigation, but we demand strict compliance with the procedures.
All the factual elements go against the accusations that have been made against the care team.
By depriving the agents of liberty, the prosecutor leaves an operating theater in a difficult area non-functional without having waited for the expert report and autopsy.
»
Patients have already had to be urgently transferred to the regional hospital in Tambacounda, nearly 250 kilometers away.
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To read also: Senegal: arrests after the death of a mother and her baby during childbirth
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