Karachi: 5 children born on the 5th of October 2006, to parents Mr and Mrs Mohammad Abbas at Kharadar General Hospital, have completed sixteen years of healthy life, after struggling at the NICU post birth. This year, the quintuplets celebrate their sixteenth birthday
Five children, three males, and 2 females took their first breaths in 2006 at 9 am, through a tedious cesarean surgery. Since the mother was a patient of Hepatitis C, cesarean, according to the doctors was the best option. Following this, all children had to be shifted to the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), where they struggled for life, for fourteen days. The expenses of the surgery, as well as the childrens’ stay at the NICU, was paid for by the Kharadar General Hospital as well as a private NGO.
After successfully surviving their stay at the NICU, the Kharadar General Hospital hospital provided the parents with a cheque of Rs 70,000, for the aftercare of the five babies. The quintuplets have also been taken care of in terms of their vaccinations and other treatment, free of cost, by the hospital. These quintuplets have now lived on to become healthy, happy sixteen-year-olds that shall be celebrating their sixteenth birthday with the family.
Against the rumored and highly predicted failure of their survival, the quintuplets have outlived and are now students of 7th to 9th grades at a local school.