(Photo) 14 Year Old Girl Gives Birth To Triplets

A
teenager has given birth to triplets in Bungoma County,
Daily Nation has reported.
Fourteen-year-old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of
Harambee village in Kakamega County, Kenya was
admitted to Bungoma District Hospital on Saturday
evening and had a Caesarean Section on Sunday to
deliver the three baby boys.
Two of the new-borns weighed 1.5 kilogrammes while
the third one weighed 1.3 kilogrammes.
Nursing officer-in-charge Mary Marumbu said the
babies and their mother were in stable condition and
ready to be discharged.
The father of the babies, a 16-year-old boy, is said to
have taken off on learning that the girl had given birth
to triplets. The teen is also a school dropout and does
menial jobs. The arrival of thetriplets is said to have
distressed him.
"He has no ability to take care of the babies even if he
was here. We are grateful to the government for
scrapping off maternity fees because I will be free to go
home once discharged. I would have been detained here
if I had been asked to pay," the teenage mother said.
Health practitioners in the country have expressed
concern over the increasing rates of teenage
pregnancies.