Anambra Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo said the state government is making plan to help Mr and Mrs Amaechi offset part of their hospital bill.
ANN reports that Mrs Chidinma Amaechi, ex-corps member delivered the set of quintuplets at Life International Hospital, Awka, Anambra State capital.
“The financial support currently being processed is a token for the wellbeing of the quintuplets, which consist of three males and two females. The support will be sent to the family immediately we are done processing it,” the commissioner said.
ANN recalls that the former corps member’s husband and sister, had last month upon her delivery pleaded for help from public spirited individuals and also the state government.
The babies were delivered after a caesarian session, and later transferred to the intensive care unit of the hospital.
The elder sister to the nursing mother, Mrs Ebele Oranekwu who spoke with journalists at the hospital, had said the bill for the incubators alone was N250,000 each day, and the children are expected to be on it for about 30 days.
She said that this bill amounted to about #7.5 million aside from other huge bills already accumulated, in the past two months of managing the delicate pregnancy at the hospital.
