Woman gives birth to 5 children at RIMS Ranchi
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Ranchi, 24 May: A woman on Monday gave birth to five children at the RIMS Ranchi in Jharkhand, which has left everyone surprised. The mother and the babies are currently in good health.
All five babies are in a healthy condition and are kept in a Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for observation.
RIMS Ranchi on its Twitter handle wrote, “A woman from Chatar has given birth to five children at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at RIMS. The babies are under the supervision of doctors in the NICU. A successful delivery was conducted under the leadership of Dr. Shashi Bala Singh.”
Ranchi: In a first for Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), a 27-year-old woman, Anita Kumari, from Itkhori block of Jharkhand’s Chatra successfully gave birth to five female babies on Monday.
Officials at the state-owned hospital said this was arguably the first time in the history of Rims which in the past had witnessed delivery of quadruples. Monday’s delivery was done by Dr Sashi Bala Singh, the hospital informed.
“The mother is doing fine but the babies are underweight between 750g and 1.1kg. So, they are kept in the NICU and will continue to be under medical observation till they stabilise properly,” said an official at Rims. On the chances of their survival and future growth of such babies, president of Ranchi Obstetric Gynaecological Society, Dr Suman Sinha said medical studies so far haven’t reported anything negative.
