A 20-year old from San José de Ocoa had to work hard to find a public hospital that could help her give birth to her cuadruplets. As reported in El Dia, looking online she found that at the Hospital Materno Reynaldo Almánzar in Villa Mella in 2015 had helped sextuplets be born. The hospital opened three years ago and has helped 295 cases of multiple births.
Eloida Santos says she studied accounting and has just two courses pending before she can graduate. Her husband lives abroad. She traveled to Santo Domingo with her mother, Nelly González.
Rafael Draper, director of the birthing hospital, said when Santos arrived to the clinic, Santos had already begun giving birth, yet she was only 25-26 weeks pregnant. She was hospitalized in the intensive care unit, where the birthing process was stopped. The hospital hopes she can make it to the seven-month mark (28-29 weeks) to give time for the maturing of the respiratory capacity of the babies.
The family already thought of the names for the babies – Isabel, Isamar, Isaara and Isaac.
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El Dia
Hospital Materno Reynaldo Almanzar
21 August 2017
