A 70-year-old woman, Safina Namukwaya from Uganda, who gave birth to twins has complained that her husband has been avoiding her.
Safina, who was delivered of twins yesterday, November 30, said that her husband has not visited her since she came to the hospital for the delivery, saying: “maybe he is not happy that I delivered twins because men don’t want to know you are carrying more than one child in a womb for fear of may be responsibilities that come with that.”
Safina delivered the twins at a medical facility in the capital Kampala, where she had received fertility treatment.
Doctor Edward Tamale Sali, who supervised her pregnancy and delivery, told AFP: “this is extraordinary achievement, delivering twins to Africa’s oldest mother at 70 years,”
He said that mother and babies, a boy and a girl, were still in the care of the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre that he founded, but were in good health.
Safina said: “there is no way to express my joy at this moment.
“At 70 years when I’m considered weak, unable to get pregnant and deliver, or look after a baby, and here is a miracle of the twins.”
Safina said that she previously gave birth to a girl in 2020, after being mocked as “cursed woman” who had previously failed to produce a child.
