A fourteen-year-old, Mwanaharabu Wamukoya, of Harambee village in Kakamega
County, Kenya gave birth to triplets. She 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.
Daily Nation reported that the 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 the triplets 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.
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