Nursing officer-in-charge Mary Marumbu said the offspring and their mother were in steady status and ready to be released.
The father of the offspring, a 16-year-old boy, is said to have taken off on discovering that the girl had granted birth to triplets. The teen is furthermore a school dropout and does menial jobs. The appearance of the triplets is said to have caused anguish him.
“He has no ability to take care of the babies even if he was here. We are grateful to the government for cancelling off maternity fees because I will be free to proceed dwelling one time discharged. I would have been detained here if I had been inquired to pay,” the teenage mother said.
wellbeing practitioners in the homeland have expressed anxiety over the expanding rates of teenage pregnancies