A couple who have been childless after ten years of marriage welcomed quintuplets on Monday, January 9th at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, Cross River State.The Cross River Government yesterday said that the babies are the first quintuplets in the state’s history.
Dr. Linda Ayade, the first lady of Akwa Ibom state, donated One million naira to the family of the quintuplets with an incubator for the management of the new babies.
Dr. Linda Ayade, Commissioner of Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong and the DG of the Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Betta Edu, arrived at the UCTH to witness what the hospital management says is the first of it’s kind in the facility.