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Hafsatu Yusuf: Kano Woman Delivers Quintuplets, Dies Hours After

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A Kano woman, Hafsatu Yusuf, who recently gave birth to quintuplets at Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, has died.

Confirming the development in a telephone interview with PUNCH Online on Thursday, the Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Ministry of Health, Nabilusi Abubakar K/Na’isa, said the woman died around 2am at the hospital.

He disclosed that the woman experienced persistent bleeding after delivering the five babies — three boys and two girls — and efforts by medical personnel to stabilise her were unsuccessful.

She had been bleeding since after delivery, and all efforts by doctors to control the situation were unsuccessful,” he said.