August 17, 2008 01:28am
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Ghazala Khamis, 27, was last night in a stable condition after requiring a blood transfusion during the caesarean section births due to bleeding, the director of the El-Shatbi Hospital, Emad Darwish, said.The premature newborns - four boys and three girls - have been placed in incubators.
"This is a very rare pregnancy, something I have never witnessed over my past 33 years in this profession," Mr Darwish said.
He said he decided to carry out the caesarean at the end of the eighth month of pregnancy, due to the pressure of the womb on the mother's kidneys.
The babies' weights range from 1.45kg to 2.8kg.
Mrs Khamis, the wife of a farmer from the northern province of Beheira, already has three girls. She was admitted to the hospital two months earlier.
"There have been complications in the pregnancy so she has been with us for some time so we could ensure everything would be all right," Mr Darwish said.
Egypt's population has tripled since 1952 to 76 million people in 2006, according to the latest census.
The Egyptian Government has launched a new campaign to raise awareness over the repercussions of a rising population. In March, President Hosni Mubarak blamed overpopulation for the acute shortages of bread that have hurt millions of the nation's poor.
The odds of having naturally conceived septuplets are one in 3,939,040,643 pregnancies.
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