File photo of Senegal's President Macky Sall, right, arriving for an EU Africa summit in Brussels, on Feb. 18, 2022. may have been caused by an electrical short circuit, the country's health minister said Thursday.
Sarr is in Geneva, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Health Assembly conference. He has cut short his trip and will be returning to Senegal immediately, his ministry said. The President also launched an investigation to find out the cause of the fire, the country's interior minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome told reporters during a visit to the hospital overnight on Wednesday.
"We are going to do it here in Tivaouane and in all the hospitals in Senegal where there is a neonatal service," he added.
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