A 44-year-old woman, Hanne Sulaiman, has given birth to sextuplets in Dutse, Jigawa, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
NAN reports that the delivery of the sextuplets came barely 18 years after the woman gave birth to a set of twins.
The delivery occurred at Dantaye village in Dutse Local Government Area of the state.
The development came as a surprise among the inhabitants of Dantaye settlement, who viewed the delivery as extraordinary.
NAN reports that hundreds of people trooped to the General Hospital Dutse to see the woman.
A 60-year-old Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA), who took delivery of the first two babies some minutes after 12 a.m. on Jan. 15, told NAN on Wednesday that she had never came across such incident throughout her experience.
“When she delivered, one was alive and one was dead, but after some minutes the other died too,’’ she however said.
Ms Aziba Rebecca, a health worker at the Basic Health Clinic Sakwaya, who took the delivery of the second two babies on Jan. 16, also told NAN that the woman delivered at about 5 p.m.
Rebecca, a trained Community Birth Attendant (CBA), further said that the woman was later referred to General Hospital Dutse, for proper medical attention.
“She was brought to this facility between 3 p.m and 4 p.m., after she gave birth to two babies at home.
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