Woman gives birth to quintuplets
In a rare incident, a woman from Gopalganj district gave birth to five babies at a time at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) through a caesarean section yesterday.
The quintuplets include a boy and four girls. All of the five infants, each weighing around two kilograms on average, are in good health, doctors said.
Four of them were kept at the child ward while the other in an incubator as it was a little underweight.
Shimu Begum, 23, the mother of the quintuplets, is wife of Gaffar Khan, a member of Kakpara UP under the sadar upazila of Gopalganj district.
She was first admitted to Gopalganj sadar hospital where it was known that there were five babies in her womb, Gaffar said.
Later, she was shifted to the KMCH on July 17 and was kept there under close observation for 72 hours. Finally, Shimu delivered the five babies yesterday.
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