Quadruplet babies born to Kasargod couple, one dies after month long battle

April 3, 2012

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Mangalore, April 3: A very rare case of four babies of same sex in a single birth (quadruplets) succeeded nearly a month of life by the team effort of highly qualified doctors and medical personals led by Dr Ali kumble in tertiary centre, lndiana Hospital, Mangalore.

However, one among the four babies died on Monday, April 2.

Dr Yusuf kumble Managing Director of the Hospital told media persons that with this Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute's medical team achieved a new milestone in Indian pediatric healthcare.

Aysha Tahira and Latheef hailing from kasargod were not blessed with offspring's for many years. After a prolonged period of waiting they were quite happy to come to know that Aysha has conceived. But the happiness did not last for long time as she delivered prematurely four babies in a single birth. Gynecologist Dr Veena Manjunath was surprised to see new babies one after the other.

The parents were informed that the chance of survival of these babies were extremely rare. Quadruplet incidences occur once in 70 lakh births. These babies survival for more than one week is extremely rare especially if they are very premature. Also it is very expensive and life saving support is required in a high tech care center to make them survive.

Dr Yousuf Kumble said that the four babies got admitted at Indiana hospital's NICU on March 11, this year. Team of doctors led by Dr Ali Kumble took it as a challenge and with their effort babies survived since their admission. Financial support was offered by the hospital management as the father was not in a position to support all the four babies.

“What makes our case still more fascinating is that babies being treated here are identical quadruplet which occurs once in every 13 million births. There are only 60 such cases on record worldwide and it is extremely challenging to ensure they survive into infancy especially if they are born premature at 26 weeks of pregnancy and weigh between 500 to 900 grams”, he said.

He said multiple pregnancies are high risk pregnancies and are associated with increased neonatal morbidity and mortality. The frequency of multiple pregnancies has increased in the past 2 decades, mostly as a result of assisted reproductive techniques for infertile couples.

The average period of gestation in quadruplet pregnancy is 31.2 weeks and the average weight is 1.362 kg as per the literature available. In this case the period of gestation was only 26 weeks and the weights being 900 grams for the first two and 580 grams for the other two offspring, the average weight being only 740 grams, perhaps the first such case of preterm identical quadruplets that goes on record in India, he said.

Dr Kumble said the babies pose serious challenges to both the pediatricians and the family, right from ensuring their survival to the many complications they may develop during their course of hospital stay. “We need to ensure they maintain a normal breathing pattern and tolerate the feed given ok them. Strict hygiene and sanitation to avoid sepsis is a benchmark for ensuring survival of such extremely low birth weight babies. That is why handling and care is undertaken by skilled and experienced nurses assigned specifically for this role”, he said.

“We have taken utmost caution in providing only the mother's milk to the newborns. They have now entered the fourth week of life when chances of intolerance to feeds are high. Survival of such babies beyond the first four weeks of life greatly improves the clinical outcome”, he said.

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Kusuma Kumari G
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Monday, 14 Mar 2016

A VERY GOOD NEWS FOR PARENTS BECAUSE GOD HAS BLESSED THEM WITH FOUR WONDEFUL KIDS.

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"If any of my words have hurt someone, I take them back as I am a true Indian," he had said.

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Chennai, July 25: A widow living alone in her apartment in Chennai city suburbs has filed a police complaint against ABVP national president Dr Subbiah Shanmugam, accusing him of harassment, including urinating and throwing used surgical masks at her doorstep.

Shockingly, no action has been taken so far by the police, even though the complaint against Dr Shanmugam, who is in government service, was filed on July 11 at the Adambakkam Police Station here by the widow’s relative Balaji Vijayaraghavan. 

Dr Shanmugam and the 62-year-old widow were living in the same apartment complex in Nanganallur and an argument broke between them over a parking slot. “He wanted to use our parking lot. We agreed but demanded a nominal charge for using it. He was outraged by our demand and even broke our signboard at the parking lot,” Vijayaraghavan wrote in his complaint.

He also alleged that Dr Shanmugam began harassing her by throwing “pieces of chicken” outside her apartment despite knowing she is a vegetarian. Vijayaraghavan also alleged in his two-page written complaint that the ABVP National President had urinated outside the woman’s apartment gate and had been throwing garbage and used masks at her gate.

The 62-year-old woman has been living alone in her apartment for the last year following her husband’s death. In his complaint, Vijayaraghavan also said the family was “concerned about her safety”, while asking police to take action against Dr Shanmugam, who he says, “has a bad track record in maintaining rapport with neighbours.”

CCTV footage corroborates with the allegations of urinating outside the residence of the widow. However, the ABVP claimed the incident as a “malicious and derogatory propaganda” by the Congress’ student wing of NSUI.

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