Sambalpur: A woman from Odisha’s Sonepur gave birth to quadruplets at state-run Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR), Burla, on Wednesday.
While three of the newborns are female, one is male. The condition of the mother and the babies is stated to be stable.
According to hospital sources, Kuni Suna of Banjipali village in Sonepur district was admitted to the hospital on Monday after she complained of labour pain. She have birth to two baby girls at 2 pm, another girl at 2.02 pm and a boy at 2.04 pm, hospital sources said. The newborns have been kept in the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) since they are underweight.
Quadruplets are quite rare – one in 5 crore births, even though multiple births (triplets or more in a single pregnancy) have become much more common than in the past.
