One infant among the recently born sextuplets has passed away, the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Colombo reported.
Director of the Hospital, Dr. G. Wijesuriya told the media that the infant had died due to bleeding in the lungs.
The sextuplets were born to a woman from Ragama on Sunday night (Oct 15) at the Castle Street Hospital in Colombo.
Dr. Wijesuriya said one infant was transferred to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital on the same day.
“The child weighed around 620 grams and was kept on life support at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital. Despite great attempts to provide treatment by the hospital staff, the child passed away on Wednesday,” he said.
Stating that a healthy newborn usually weighs over 2 kilos, Dr. Wijesuriya said the said child was only around 620 grams and that such infants face great risk and have a low survival rate. (NewsWire)