In a rare case, a woman gave birth to quintuplets in Bihar’s Kishanganj district and all the newborns are in good health.
The woman is identified as 20-year-old Tahira Begum of Thakurganj, Kanakpur Panchayat village in Jalmilik. On Saturday night she delivered five baby girls at a nursing home located on the Bihar-Bengal border in the Pothia block of Bihar's Kishanganj district.
All babies were delivered normally and weighed under one kilogram each. According to the doctors, Tahira and her newborns are in healthy condition and the five newborns are under medical supervision.
Her village is in festive mode with the arrival of five babies. Tahira Begum already has a 3-year-old son. During her pregnancy, she found out that she had four children in her womb. However, when she visited a doctor for a checkup an ultrasound revealed that there were five children.
Dr. Farzana said that this was not a normal birth, there were many intricacies. After the birth of the babies Tahira faced some issues but shortly everything became normal. Tahira has been shifted to a higher-level medical facility for additional care and treatment. Doctors said that this type of case is seen in one in a million people.
A similar case happened in May last year in Jharkhand, where a woman delivered five children at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). As the babies were underweight they were kept in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) for supervision. After the successful delivery of the five babies, the RIMS shared the news on its social media platform Twitter. Remarkably, this is the first time in the hospital’s records that quintuplets have been delivered.
(Input from various sources)
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