Tunisia’s health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigned on Saturday after 11 babies mysteriously died within 24 hours in a hospital in the capital, state news agency TAP said, ONA reports quoting Reuters.
The health ministry and state prosecutors have launched investigations into the cause of the babies’ death which was likely due to a blood infection, it said.
Tunisians have complained about a decline of state services since the overthrow of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 which has brought a democratic transition but also thrown the country into an economic crisis.
Government critics say the public sector is rife with corruption.
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