PHOTO: 25-year-old woman gives birth to 9 babies at once

Funke AzeezMay 5, 2021

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25 -year -old woman gives birth to 9 babies at once

A woman, 25, has given birth to nonuplets, five girls and four boys, in Morocco on Tuesday, May 4, Mali health ministry reports.

It is understood that Mali’s government flew Halima Cisse to Morocco for better care on March 30.

In a statement released by the Mali’s government, Halima Cisse was said to have birthed five girls and four boys by Caesarean section.

“The mother and babies are doing well so far,” Mali’s Health Minister Fanta Siby told AFP, adding that she had been kept informed by the Malian doctor who accompanied Cisse to Morocco.

They are due to return home in several weeks’ time, she added.

Doctors had been concerned about Cisse’s health, according to local press reports, as well as her babies’ chances of survival.

Mali’s health ministry said that ultrasound examinations conducted in both Mali and Morocco had suggested that Cisse was carrying seven babies.

Siby offered her congratulations to “the medical teams of Mali and Morocco, whose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancy”