United News of Bangladesh

Four of the five babies born to a woman at Faridpur Medical College Hospital on Thursday died within 12 hours of birth due to complications from premature delivery and extremely low birth weight, doctors said. The woman gave birth to quintuplets – three boys and two girls – through normal delivery at the hospital’s labour ward between 5:20pm and 5:50pm on Thursday. However, one of the boys survived and remains under treatment at the hospital, while four other newborns died. The parents are Mahamudul Hasan and Chandni Begum of Bhabukdia village in Dangi union of Nagarkanda upazila. Preetiraj Roy Chowdhury, an intern at the hospital’s neonatal and paediatric ward, said all five babies were born alive but were extremely underweight, each weighing between 600 and 800 grams. She said such cases require neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), but the hospital lacks adequate facilities, and the newborns were advised to be taken to Dhaka. The surviving baby is being treated at the neonatal and paediatric ward under close observation, senior nurse Riya.