20-year-old mother of triplets calls for assistance

A 20-year- old woman, Salamatu Suleiman, has urged the general public to help with the care of her new set of triplets that she delivered at Salman Hospital in Jos around 12:05 am yesterday.

Salamatu, who spoke with Daily Trust at the post-natal ward of the hospital in Jos, said that she and her husband, a security man at a mining company in Jos, could not afford the care of the babies.

The new mother who got married to her husband Suleiman about eight months ago and reside at Kwanar Shagari in Jos metropolis, said, “I have been coming to the hospital for antenatal since when my pregnancy was two months.

They took good care of me up to my delivery and now our babies two boys and a girl need proper attention. We want government and members of the general public to help us.”

The Medical Doctor in charge of Salman Hospital, Dr Kumbet John Sonny, said they delivered the children through caesarian section. “I discovered that she had triplets when she came to our hospital when her pregnancy was six weeks, and after ultra-sound scan I saw three gestational sacks to tell that the babies were developing independently,” he said, adding that the delivery was effected after she fell into labour short of nine months of a typical pregnancy.

He disclosed that the first day he told the father of the babies that his wife had triplets, he put his hands on his head and screamed, because he did not have the money to take care of them.

“Even after caesarian yesterday the husband didn’t have the money to buy clothing for the children. Therefore, my call to the general public is, this woman and her babies are in dire need and I solicit for their support. On my own as the personal doctor in charge, I have started mine, because we did the caesarian free. I want other people to help,” he said.