Record: septuplets expected and gave birth to nine babies

BAMAKO A woman. Malian woman who believed she was pregnant with septuplets from ultrasounds, gave birth to nine children by caesarean section in a hospital in Morocco. There are five girls and four boys and “everything is fine,” according to the Malian Ministry of Health.

The woman, identified as Haliam Cisse, of 25 years and from Timbuktu (north), spent two weeks in a hospital in Bamako, but the transitional president of his country, Bah Ndaw, authorized on March 30 your transfer to a Moroccan clinic Due to the special conditions of gestation, which initially indicated septuplets.

The woman gave birth by caesarean section of “nine babies instead of the seven announced by the results of ultrasounds carried out both in Mali and in Morocco,” the Malian Ministry of Health said in a statement.

“So far the mother and her children are doing well,” said Health Minister Fanta Siby, who said she had been informed by the Malian doctor who was accompanying the mother to Morocco. He added that the family would return to their country in several weeks.

The specialists were concerned about their health and the chances of survival of the fetuses. Nonuplets are extremely rare and medical complications with multiple deliveries of this type often mean that some babies do not survive.

This is why the case of Cissé has drawn the attention of the governments of West African countries who have given all their support to the young woman to have a successful delivery, details The Guardian today.

the Guinness Book of Records It has been listed so far as the largest multiple birth in which babies have survived in the case of the American Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in January 2009.

AFP and DPA agencies

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