(TYRE, LEBANON) — A 24-year-old Lebanese woman, Aya Hamad, gave birth to premature quintuplets at the Jabal Amel hospital in the Tyre suburb of Daabal.
The three girls and two boys – Ali, Hassan, Fatima, Zainab and Zahra – are in good health as they were born prematurely at the 30th week of pregnancy.
The quintuplets weighed between 1 kg and 1.3 kg and were in “stable, good condition,” the director of the hospital, Dr. Kamel Yassin told Beirut-based newspaper, The Daily Star.
Hamad’s doctor, Riad Ghareeb, told the Lebanese National News Agency that “she was infertile and had been undergoing treatment for the past two years.” He said the pregnancy happened “in a natural way.”
Hamad and her husband Hussein Fawwaz, who already have a 2-year-old son, urged the government to help them raise their six children amid the difficult social and economic situation.