A 32-year-old woman has died shortly after she was delivered of sextuplets in Nigeria’s South-west Ogun state, the private Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. Mrs. Amuda Ajoke Bello, who made history on Saturday by giving birth to sextuplets, died in the early hours of Sunday at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOTH) in Sagamu, Ogun State.
The report said the cause of her death was yet to be ascertained.
Two of the babies – three boys and three girls – have been transferred to the economic capital city of Lagos while the remaining four are said to be in incubators at the hospital.
An official of the Teaching Hospital, Prof. Femi Ajayi, had said three of the babies weighed 650, 600 and 850 grammes at birth, while the other three weighed 900 grammes each.
He disclosed that the woman had two kids before the latest delivery.
The father, a battery charger, was said to have fled when he received the news of the sextuplets’ delivery, apparently due to lack of the resources to take care of the babies.
However, the management of the hospital has decided to take care of the medical bill of the babies.