Aristide Le Dantec : Les syndicats dénoncent un retard "inacceptable" et exigent la réouverture Immédiate
Aristide Le Dantec Hospital, a pillar of Senegal's healthcare system, has been closed for over 38 months due to work initially scheduled to last 18 months. Faced with this "unacceptable" delay and doubts about the project's management, the workers' union is sounding the alarm.
Meeting this Tuesday, October 28, for a press briefing, the collective expressed its "deep concern" and denounced the inaction which "seriously compromises access to care" for millions of patients.
A Devastating Impact on Public Health
For the unions, the prolonged closure of the facility represents a silent health crisis. "The Aristide Le Dantec Hospital is a pillar of the Senegalese healthcare system. Its prolonged closure deprives millions of patients of quality care every year," lamented Mague Ngom, spokesperson for the day.
The workers particularly emphasized the plight of cancer patients. Before its closure, Dantec's radiotherapy department treated more than 14,000 patients a year, a service that is now inaccessible.
Beyond the delays, the union collective expressed concern about the intervention of Fund VI in the reconstruction project, fearing a drift in the mission of the public establishment.
Fund VI recently announced its intention to turn the new hospital into a "medical and paramedical group" without resorting to public debt. To achieve this, the entity plans to develop three remaining hectares of the site, while attaching "non-alienation clauses."
However, this option arouses strong reservations among workers, who see it as a risk of creeping privatization or, at the very least, a misallocation of land resources.
"These lands should instead be used for support infrastructure; the population is growing, so it needs more care," argued Cheick Seck, general secretary of the Democratic Union of Health and Social Workers (SDT-3S).
The inter-union solemnly calls on the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and his Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, to intervene to guarantee transparency in the management of the construction site and to accelerate the reopening of the establishment as soon as possible.
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