Mother's crumb of comfort after losing one of her triplets in Senegal fire

Anta Ba, a mother who lost one of her triplets, checks on her two babies who were discharged hours before a fire at the neonatal unit of Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in Tivouane, that killed eleven newborn babies, as they lie on her bed at her house in Keur Assane Mbaye village, Thies region, Senegal May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

TIVAOUANE, Senegal (Reuters) - Anta Ba arrived at the gate of the Tivaouane hospital in western Senegal early on Thursday to breastfeed her baby daughter, the only one of her triplets not discharged because she was still considered too weak.

But a guard stopped her and told her that there had been a fire in the neonatal unit. None of the newborns had survived.