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May
Health Minister Sacked Over Deaths Of 11 Newborn Babies In A Hospital Fire Senegal's health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, who has since been sacked from his post, says that the state is waiting for "the expert report from SENELEC (National Electricity Company of Senegal, ed)" to find out the cause of the fire that killed 11 babies late Wednesday. Senegal's President Macky Sall fired the health minister on Thursday and announced three days of national mourning for the death of the newborns.. Eleven newborn babies died in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical short circuit in Senegal's western…