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Woman gives birth to quintuplets in Oyugis, Homa Baby County

Newborn babies. [Photo/courtesy]

30-year-old Jacinta Akinyi was going on with her normal duties at a farm where she was working as a casual labourer on Saturday evening not knowing that on Sunday morning she would deliver quintuplets.

Akinyi who hails from Katula Kachiel area in Homa Bay County told The Standard that she felt some labour pains on Sunday morning after which she informed her mother-in-law and was rushed to Matata Hospital in Oyugis Town at 5AM where she delivered the five babies.

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