The health department of the Region of Kaolack, Senegal is in real anguish. The El Hadj Ibrahima Niass Hospital, the biggest structure of the locality, lacks everything. Trough the press last Thursday, the workers of the hospital grumbled a chain of laments desperately hoping to save a crumbling structure.

      "The personnel, facing the duty of helping patients, carries plastic bags by security measure. This situation cannot last any longer because in the place of the napkins, we need cotton, in lieu of plastic bags, we need gloves.” Here is the gist of the declaration of Adama Diawara, spokesman of inter-union of the workers of the hospital El Hadj Ibrahima Niasse of Kaolack that sums up the gravity of the situation; a disturbing lack of means which seriously affects the quality of care and services within the hospital. The workers also entrusted to the journalists the difficulties related to the correct care and heed of patients because of the under equipment of the hospital. According to Adama Diawara, certain examinations cannot be made any more since the means of carrying them out are non-existent.

    Adama Diawara and his comrades beg the Senegalese Government to set up a plan to save all the hospitals in Senegal, particularly the previously mentioned. In this perspective, the workers ask to be included in the management of the hospital. Recently Alex Segura, the representatant of the IMF drew the alarm bell on the RFM (a local radio station). It revealed that the debt of the hospitals rose to 15 billion FCFA (Around 30M USD).