Correspondent
IMPHAL, SEPTEMBER 22
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] fisherman’s wife has created history in Manipur’s child birth record by delivering quintuplets, within 10 minutes time in a government hospital today. Of the five babies, four are girls and one is a boy. Unfortunately, one baby girl expired.
The condition of two more baby girls weighing 800 and 900gm each are also critical and they remain in the Intensive Care Unit at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital.
However, the health of the first-born baby girl and third-born baby boy, both weighing around 900 gm each are said to be stable, according to sources from the RIMS Hospital.
The mother Oinam Gita, (35), who was already a mother of four children, went into labour at just 28 weeks on Monday afternoon after she was referred from a district hospital and delivered the babies with the help of three young doctors - Sivani, Tete and Arahan from 1.05 - 1.11 pm to become the proud mother of the wonderful babies.
The condition of the mother Gita is said to be stable. She is the wife of wife of Santa (37), a resident of Thanga Samukol village in Manipur’s Bishnupur district.“We are also monitoring the other babies. Obstetric team of the hospital is trying to help them,” said Dr L Ranabir, head of department of Pediatrics of RIMS.
He told the media persons that Monday’s incident was the first of its kind in the history of RIMS.
Mention can be made that in India, a woman Anju Kushwaha, (28), from Satna district of central Madhya Pradesh province, has given birth to ten babies in December last year, but none of them survived.
