MALI WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO 9 BABIES, 5 GIRLS AND 4 BOYS

Wed 05 May 2021:

In what would be called a rare case, a 25-year-old woman in Mali has given birth to nine babies ‘nonuplets’ in Morocco.

A young Malian woman became a phenomenon in a single day by safely giving birth to nine babies at once at a hospital in Morocco on Tuesday.

Halima Cisse, 25, from the West African country wrote her name in history as a mother of nonuplets — five girls and four boys — and she and the babies are all “doing well,” said a written statement from the Mali Health Ministry.

She was initially believed to be pregnant with septuplets according to multiple ultrasounds which were performed by the healthcare specialists in both Morocco and Mali. The woman has now given birth to five girls and four boys, the government authorities told local news outlets.

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After a two-week medical stay at a hospital in the Malian capital Bamako, the doctors requested specialist care for the rare case of Cisse.

On the instruction of Bah Ndaw, the interim president of Mali’s transitional government, the authorities flew her to Morocco, where she was admitted to a clinic for treatment on March 30, said the ministry statement.

Moroccan health ministry spokesman Rachid Koudhari told Africa’s Khaleej Times that it would be the first time that the country has witnessed such a rare scenario, and the detection of nonuplets in the woman’s womb shocked the West African nation.

Medics, last month, had suggested that Cisse needed special care and that’s when the government officials had decided to take the mother to be out of the country for a better medical check-up. Mali’s health minister, Fanta Siby, said in a statement that all the children and the mother were in a good health, and safe. All nine kids were delivered by cesarean section.

Nonuplets are extremely rare in medical practice and sometimes some of the newborns may not survive.

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