DHAKA, Sept 15, 2025 (BSS) – Five of six newborn sextuplets died in less than 24 hours after their birth at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), doctors and family members said here today.

“Only one of the newborns – a girl – is alive at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Nilkhet Homecare,” a private health facility in the capital, the newborns’ paternal aunt Farzana Akhter told BSS.

The family members said 23-year-old Mokseda Akhter Priya gave birth to six children, three males and three females, simultaneously at 9 am on Sunday at the DMCH while one of them died within hours at the state-run facility.

They said the lack of rooms at the DMCH forced them to shift three of the neonatal to Nilkhet Homecare, where two of them died today. The others died at the DMCH.

DMCH gynecologist Associate Professor Abida Sultana said all the babies were born premature, at 27 weeks of gestation, against the minimal normal period of 28 weeks.

She said the weights of the babies ranged between 800 and 900 grams.

The mother of the babies is currently being treated at the DMCH while her husband Mohammad Hanif is a Bangladeshi expatriate in Qatar.