A youngster has conceived triplets in Bungoma County.
Fourteen-year-old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of Harambee village in Kakamega County, Kenya was conceded to Bungoma District Hospital on Saturday nighttime and had a Caesarean Section on Sunday to deliver the three babies.
Two of the new-born weighed 1.5 kilogrammes while the third one weighed 1.3 kilogrammes.
Nurturing officer-in-control Mary Marumbu said the children and their mother were in stable condition and primed to be released.
The father of the toddlers, a 16-year-old kid, is said to have run away after he discovered that the young lady had conceived triplets. The youngster is likewise a school dropout and does menial jobs. The entry of the triplets is said to have troubled him.
"He has no capacity to take care of the infants regardless of the fact that he was here. We are thankful to the legislature for scrapping off maternity expenses in light of the fact that I will be allowed to go home once released. I might have been kept here assuming that I had been asked to pay," the adolescent mother said.
Health specialists in the nation have communicated concern over the expanding rates of teen pregnancies.