Fourteen-year-old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of Harambee village in Kakamega
County, Kenya was admitted to Bungoma District Hospital on the evening of
August 24, 2013, Saturday, and had a Caesarean Section on the next day to
deliver the three baby boys.
Two of the new-borns weighed 1.5 kg while the third one weighed 1.3 kg.
Mary Marumbu, the nursing officer-in-charge, 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.
Kenyan health practitioners have
expressed concern over the increasing rates of teenage pregnancies.
1 comment:
Eh when they were bumping&grinding they didnt know the implication? jokers
Post a Comment