Senegal: Health Workers Strike Over Death of Pregnant Woman
Health workers in Senegal went on strike to protest at charges filed against six midwives accused of negligence in the death of pregnant woman that sparked nationwide anger.
The National Association of Midwives and several other groups in the health sector said they were joining a work stoppage ranging from one to three days.
The public health system has been “paralysed,” Mballo Dia Thiam at an umbrella group of healthcare workers called ASAS, said.
The health ministry, gave no details about the impact of the strike, saying only that it had “taken steps.”
The affair was sparked by the death of a nine-months-pregnant woman named Astou Sokhna at a public hospital in the northern town of Louga.
She repeatedly pleaded with doctors to perform a caesarean secti...