A first in the country – five baby-girls born in a rare quintuplet delivery to a 29-year-old mother from Gampaha around 10 a.m. on Friday, August 28, at the De Soysa Hospital for Women, down Kynsey Road in Colombo.

“This is the first all-girl quintuplet birth but we believe it’s the fourth time five babies have been born to mothers in Sri Lanka,” said Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Dr. Probhodana Ranaweera who with his colleague, Dr. Mohamed Rishard, both of the hospital’s Professorial Unit, performed the two-hour Caesarian-section on the mother.

The babies whose weight ranges from 1.4 kg (biggest) to 1 kg (smallest), are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), while the mother who is in a critical condition is in the ICU, the Sunday Times learns.

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