A teenager has given birth to triplets in Bungoma
County, Daily Nation has reported. Fourteen-year-
old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of Harambee village in
Kakamega County, Kenya was admitted to Bungoma
District Hospital on Saturday evening and had a
Caesarean Section on Sunday to deliver the three
baby boys. Two of the new-borns weighed 1.5
kilogrammes while the third one weighed 1.3
kilogrammes.
Nursing officer-in-charge Mary Marumbu 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.
Health practitioners in the country have expressed
concern over the increasing rates of teenage
pregnancies.
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