Three of the four quadruplets who were born in the Reynaldo Almanzar Hospital in Santo Domingo province have died while the fourth baby is critical condition.
Hospital director, Rafael Draper, explained that the babies’ mother, Eloida Santos, was already in labor when she arrived at the hospital, but the babies were only 25 to 26 weeks old and they were unable to prevent the labor from continuing.
Santos, aged 20, traveled from San José de Ocoa to Santo Domingo, a 125-kilometer distance, as no private clinics nor public hospital in the area had the facilities to attend to multiple births.
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El Dia
29 August 2017
