Two of Krobo quintuplets die at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital

Two of five babies delivered on Wednesday at the St. Martin De Pores Hospital at Agomanya in the Eastern Region in extremely rare naturally-conceived quintuplets, have died at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital in Accra.

The quints were referred to the hospital Thursday morning for further medical attention but one of them reportedly died shortly upon arrival with the second just hours later.

Doctors at the St. Martin’s hospital confirmed receiving reports of the deaths but added that efforts to reach authorities at Korle-Bu for more information were still underway.

The babies were delivered at 2:02 am on Wednesday after the mother checked into the facility Tuesday evening shortly upon arrival from Tarkwa where she was living with her husband.

The neonates described as ‘pre-term’ by doctors were only 28 weeks old at the time of delivery through caesarian section (CS) by Dr. Mariam Theodora Bansah, Clinical Coordinator of the Hospital.

Madam Gladys Annorbaah, grandmother of the quintuplets who accompanied the mother and babies to the hospital said they were informed of the first death shortly after arrival at the facility.

“Minutes after the ambulance team [from Agomanya] had left, one of the nurses at Korle-Bu called and asked me to take a look at one of the babies and she said one of them has died,” she narrated in an interview with GhanaWeb.

She said the second baby died around 4pm Thursday.

Meanwhile, the mother of the babies, Hellen Tettey is said to be doing well.

There is between a one in 55 million and 60 million chance of a mother falling pregnant with five babies, without hormone treatment, experts say.