Kenyan Woman, 28, Gives Birth to Quintuplets

A 28-year-old Kenyan woman has given birth to quintuplets.

Evelyn Namukhula has delivered the five babies at Kakamega General Hospital on Wednesday.

Namukhula, who is now a mother of nine children delivered the three girls and two boys through a Caesarean Section (CS).

Namukhula lives with her hearing disabled husband Herbert Wawire in Sisokhe village, Navakholo Constituency.

In 2017, another Kenyan woman in Homa Bay County also gave birth to quintuplets.

30-year-old Jacinta Akinyi Ochieng delivered the babies that weighed between 1.6 to 1.9 kilograms. She was seven months pregnant at the time of delivery.

Last year, a 28-year-old father of twins collapsed at the hospital after learning that his wife, Jacinta Mwihaki, 30, had given birth to triplets.

Francis Gitau from Narok County said he was worried how he would manage to raise the children, citing meager income.

Gitau and Mwihaki were already parents to four-year-old twins.