Five of the sextuplets born at Dhaka Medical College Hospital have died while undergoing treatment. One baby girl remains hospitalised and is currently receiving treatment.
On Monday, two newborns died in the morning and one in the afternoon at the NICH of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Additionally, one newborn died at a private hospital on Sunday night, and another died at Dhaka Medical on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier, on Sunday around 9am, a woman named Mokseda Akter Priya (23) from Senbagh Upazila, Noakhali, gave birth to six children in the hospital’s gynaecology department.
The death of four children was confirmed by Priya’s sister-in-law, Farzana Akter. She stated that three of the six newborns were placed in NICH at Dhaka Medical College, while the remaining three were admitted to the NICU of a private hospital. One by one, five children have died during treatment. Currently, one baby girl is admitted to the private hospital, and her condition is not good.
Farzana informed that the bodies of the children have been buried at Azimpur Graveyard. The children’s mother, Priya, has been taken home from Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Farzana mentioned that Priya is the wife of expatriate Md Hanif from Khajuria village in Senbagh Upazila, Noakhali. Priya was in her 27th week of pregnancy. She had been regularly consulting a doctor in her local area. Through an ultrasound there, she learned that she was carrying not one or two, but five children.
She added that on September 9, Priya came to her elder sister Lipi’s house in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj. From there, she received treatment at Monowara Hospital. Last Saturday, when she began experiencing pain, she was quickly brought to Dhaka Medical College and admitted. Around 9am on Sunday, she gave birth normally to six children, not five.
On Sunday afternoon, Dr Nilufar Yasmin, a medical officer at the Neonatology Department of Dhaka Medical College, stated that a mother had given birth normally to six newborns in the morning. She was in her 27th week of pregnancy. The babies were premature, with weights ranging from 615 grams to 900 grams.
