If the five infants had not died, Akinyi would have had nine children

Jacinta Akinyi (left) and her mother in law Pamela Ongonyo speaking to journalists at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital on Tuesday. Akinyi lost all the five babies due to multiple complications. Edwin Nyarangi/ The Standard.

There was an air of gloom and sadness at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital after the surviving three children out of the five that were birthed by Jacinta Akinyi died.

Akinyi gave birth to five children (quintuplets) – three boys and two girls on Sunday12 November 2017 at Matata Hospital in Oyugis Town. The three surviving infants (two boys and a girl) were transferred to Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital where they died on Tuesday at 6am.