A teenager has given
birth to triplets in
Bungoma County, Daily Nation has reported.
Fourteen-year-old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of Harambee village in
Kakamega County, Kenya was admitted to Bungoma District Hospital on
Saturday evening and had a Caesarean Section on Sunday to deliver the
three baby boys.
Two of the new-borns weighed 1.5 kilogrammes while the third one weighed
1.3 kilogrammes.
Nursing officer-in-charge Mary Marumbu said the babies and their mother
were in stable condition and ready to be discharged.
The father of the babies, a 16-year-old boy, is said to have taken off on
learning that the girl had given birth to triplets. The teen is also a school
dropout and does menial jobs. The arrival of thetriplets is said to have
distressed him.
“He has no ability to take care of the babies even if he was here. We are
grateful to the government for scrapping off maternity fees because I will be
free to go home once discharged. I would have been detained here if I had
been asked to pay,” the teenage mother said.
Health practitioners in the country have expressed concern over
the increasing rates of teenage pregnancies.
(credit--informationnigeria.com)