WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO QUINTUPLET IN AWKA, FAMILY APPEALS FOR HELP

REPORTER: OBY ARINZE

A housewife, Mrs. Chidinma Amaechi, has been delivered of a quintuplet after nine years of childless marriage.

The quintuplets, consisting three boys and two girls, were delivered at a private hospital in Awka, Anambra State, through a caesarian session.

The 28-year-old Mrs. Amechi, who finished her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme recently, is the wife of a petty trader, Mr. Tochukwu Ameachi based in Onitsha.

Raddio Nigeria obseved that the babies are now in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

One of the caregivers who did not want her name mentioned, assured journalists that the children and their mother were responding very well to treatment.

The elder sister to the nursing mother, Mrs. Ebele Oranekwu, who spoke with journalists at the hospital, said “the bill for the incubators alone is 250,000 for each day, and the children are expected to be on it for about 30 days.”

She said that the bill amounted to about #7.5 million aside other huge bills already accumulated in the past two months of managing the delicate pregnancy at the hospital.

The family is therefore appealing to philanthropists, the state Government and Non-Governmental Organisations to come to their aid, to enable them to offset the huge medical bills to reap the full benefits of God’s blessings upon their family.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU