July 06, 2008	Sunday	Rajab 2, 1429

LAHORE, July 5: An industrial worker’s wife on Saturday gave birth to quadruplet — two boys and two girls — at the Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital, Multan Road.

Two baby boys and a girl are on the artificial ventilation, while one baby girl is stable. The neonatology consultant says the babies’ exact condition will be determined after 24 hours.

All four babies are low-weight and their body organs are not fully developed.

It is learnt that industrial worker Muhammad Sajjad Ahmad, 37, a resident of Kasur, had got his wife admitted to the Social Security Hospital, Kot Lakhpat, from where she was referred to the Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital (Multan Road) on Friday.

Hospital’s consultant gynaecologist Dr Syeda Shaista Waheed told Dawn that all four babies had been delivered pre-mature. The first baby was delivered at 10.15am and the last at 11.30am.

Dr Shaista confirmed that the sucklings had low birth weight (an average weight ranging between 1.3 to 1.5 kg). She said the mother was stable.

Neonatologist consultant Dr Faiza Khan said three babies were on artificial ventilation and their exact condition would be determined after 24 hours. At present, she said, the babies’ body organs were not fully developed. She said the babies’ lungs had not matured yet.