MIRPUR [AJK]: A 32-year-old woman delivered a quadruplet – a baby girl and 3 baby boys on Monday at sub-district hospital Kupwara in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The report continued that the woman namely Khalida Begum wife of Shafqat Bhat of Keran had developed labour pain and was referred to SDG Kupwara from PHC Keran, said in a report reaching here Monday from Across the Line of Control.
It said that the woman gave birth quadruplet – a baby girl and 3 baby boys and had a normal delivery.
This was the first pregnancy of Khalida, and is the first such case in Kupwara district, the report underlined.
Medical superintendent SDH Kupwara, Mir Shafi described it as a difficult case and said that it took them over hours to successfully help the woman deliver babies.
He said that this was the first case in more than a thousand deliveries done at the SDH Kupwara so far, according to the report.
“Quadruplet is extremely rare. In fact, in my entire career, I have only seen this one. We seldom deliver twins and occasionally deliver triplets too but quadruplets are extremely rare,” the M S said, the report added.