Kupwara: In a rare case of its nature, a woman has delivered a quadruple at a Sub-district hospital in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.
The woman (name withheld), hails from Keran Kupwara. She was admitted with labour pain at PHC Keran. Sensing exigency of the case, the doctors referred the woman to SDH Kupwara around midnight, concerned doctors said.
Given due care and treatment by a team of doctors, the woman delivered four babies including three boys and a girl at around 2 AM, they said.
“All the babies and their mother, upon receipt of this report, are doing well.”
When contacted, Medical Suprident Kupwara Dr Mohammad Shafi, he said that such cases’ are always difficult to tackle.
"It fortunately was a normal delivery given the rarity of such cases", he said adding "Such cases’ usually require a higher degree of assessment and accuracy and the good thing is that we didn’t had to refer the woman to any other hospital".
(GNS)
