As the international Day of the African Child is being celebrated today a woman has given birth to triplets in her hometown at Urum, Awka North local govt area of Anambra.state Nigeria
The woman Mrs Oluchukwu Madubuko delivered two girls and a boy at about three o'clock today with the assistance of some concern neighbours who aided her safe delivery before residents were woken up to share in the great news.
Speaking with Ashiwaju.org, Two eye witnesses Mrs Patients Umegbolu and Mrs Helen Nwafor who assisted the woman in her delivering ,said they had invited the services of a midwife in the area who they were still trying to find a means of rushing her to the hospital., the first child came out which made them to take her back to the room where she completed the delivery.
The villages seized the opportunity to call on Anambra state Government to recruit more nurses and doctors in the rural areas as the health centers in the community lacks qualified health-care professionals.The father of the the triplets Mr. Asiegbu Madubuko who was full of praise to God for serving his wife and children called for urgent government intervention saying he is an ordinary farmer without a reasonable income.
Also speaking one of the elders in the community Mr Martin Nwanna urged the state government occasion to pay more attention on how to sustain the lives of pregnant women and children especially in the rural areas of the country
In an interview with Ashiwaju.org, a midwife with a private maternity home in Urum Mrs Chinyere Okeke Confirmed that the woman and her triplets were in good condition even as she spoke on the need for urgent government attention to primary healthcare centers and maternity.
Ashiwaju.org who got to the community by seven in the morning reports that the people were thrown into confusion as the woman who have been on bed after delivery since three AM started having convulsion and vomiting blood. the Woman was later rushed to General Hospital Amaku where she is now receiving medical attention.