One of the quintuplets delivered at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja (FMC) on April 17 is dead, the hospital management has said.
This is as Dr Taiwo Jones, Head Clinical Services, Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, seeks to relocate the family from their present abode to a more conducive part of the state capital.
Dr Jones told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lokoja that the baby, who had been in an incubator, died in the early hours of Monday, April 22.
NAN reports that the baby, a male was the first to be delivered through Caesarean Section and weighed 1.3 kg at birth, a development which made the hospital to put him in an incubator.
TheLagostimes had earlier reported that the quintuplets, three boys and two girls, were delivered by Mrs Uchenna Okeigbo, 42, an indigene of Olokoro Amangbo Community, Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia.
Mrs Okeigbo had waited for 18 years after marriage before giving birth to the quintuplets.
Jones said the hospital did all it could to ensure that the baby stayed alive, but all to no avail.
”At delivery, four out of the five babies were found to be fit and okay, but the fifth baby that weighed 1.3kg was unstable and unfit because of infections. As such, he was isolated and kept in incubator.
”The baby was initially presumed sepsis based on elevated C-reactive protein.
”Unfortunately, the condition of the baby deteriorated and we eventually lost the baby on Monday at about 5 a.m.
”The other four babies are in stable conditions.
”We will ensure that all the remaining four babies and their mother are fit and stable before they are discharged,” Jones said.