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Another multiple birth expected

As doctors work to keep the quadruplets alive at the Women’s Hospital, another woman has been admitted, awaiting the birth of sextuplets. 33-year-old Maxima Perez from Villa Mella is 25 weeks pregnant and is under observation by specialists at the hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Service. The woman has been receiving fertility treatment. The head of the Ob-Gyn Service at the hospital, Jose Garrido Calderon, said that sonograms and other laboratory work was being carried out in order to complete her medical records.