A policeman stands guard at the entrance of a hospital, where newborn babies died in a fire in the neonatal ward, in Tivaouane, Senegal May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal President Macky Sall on Thursday sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, a government decree showed, after 11 babies were killed by a fire in a hospital neonatal ward.
Sarr will be replaced by Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye, the ministry's director general, according to the decree.
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