Seventeen healthy babies were delivered on Independence Day on Thursday at Juba Teaching Hospital.

Judith Cenia Androga, the midwife in charge of the hospital’s maternity ward, says the mothers and babies are in good health.

She told Radio Miraya, “We have nine girls and also we have nine boys in eighteen but the one who died is a girl. So live girls we have eight, nine boys which are alive but among the nine boys we have two which are admitted in the neonatal special care unit because they have little abnormality so they were admitted in the nursery.”

One of the mothers who gave birth to twins expressed her joy upon her safe delivery. “I am ok, I am better today, I delivered well my children are fine, I gave birth to twins they are well, I was sick but now I am became well.”

File photo: A midwife holds a newborn baby at a clinic in Malualkon, South Sudan (Peter Biro/IRC)