Fourteen-year-old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of
Harambee village in Kakamega County, Kenya was
admitted to Bungoma District Hospital on the
evening of August 24, 2013, Saturday, and had a
Caesarean Section on the next day to deliver the
three baby boys. Two of the new-borns weighed 1.5 kg while the
third one weighed 1.3 kg. Mary Marumbu, the nursing officer-in-charge, 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 the
triplets 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. Kenyan health practitioners have expressed
concern over the increasing rates of teenage
pregnancies.
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