HELP CARE FOR QUADRUPLETS .... PAGE 43

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Chiana

A COUPLE at Chiana-Kanania, a farming community near Chiana in the Upper East Region have made a passionate appeal to philanthropic organisations and individuals to support them to take care of a set of quadruplets they had two-and-a-half years ago.
The couple made the appeal when the Upper East Regional Director of the Department of Women of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs, Madam Paulina Abayage, visited them in their home last Friday.
They told the Daily Graphic that because of their high poverty level, coupled with the flood disaster that struck the entire region last year, their main problem was taking care of the children in terms of feeding.
They maintained that as a result of their inability to purchase food, the children, all males, had had to depend solely on breast milk.
Making the appeal, the children’s mother, Madam Comfort Abalagijira, said two of the children had been chronically malnourished since they were born, while the other two had not been able to walk.
Madam Abalagijira, who was delivered of the children in the house because her husband could not afford to send her to the hospital, narrated the ordeal she went through two-and-a-half years ago.
She said she had not been made aware that she was going to have quadruplets but after she had been delivered of the first baby, she felt she was still in labour. She pushed again and the remaining three came one after another.
Soon after the fourth one came out, she collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. The babies were also taken to a nearby clinic and later transferred to the Navrongo Hospital.
 Madam Abayage reiterated the appeal by the couple for food and also called for food supplements such as vitamins. She presented one maxi-bag of rice, a bag of maize, a half carton of Key bar soap and assorted used children’s clothing to the couple.