Tunisia's health minister resigns after 11 babies die in hospital

 

TUNIS (Reuters) - 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.

 

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.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-10

Further evidence that not all countries a better run as a democracy. Afghanistan, Iraq and Lybia front and center, pseudo-democracies like Egypt and most of Africa which have tribal or religious divisions are all failures as well. Maybe in another couple of generations, we shall see.