Authorities at the hospital say it was not the lack of incubators that caused the babies to die but the intensive medical attention they needed, could not be provided by the family.
It was during the early hours of Monday, May 11, at about 12:50 am, when the medical team on duty at the maternity ward of the Yaounde Central Hospital received Anne Christelle Ntsama, aged 21.
Given that the babies were not only premature but too tiny with two of them having respiratory problems, Dr Yannick Messakop and his team sorted out better paediatric care from the Chantal Biya Foundation, the Yaounde Teaching Hospital and the Yaounde Gynaecological and Paediatric hospital to no avail.
Later, the aunt of Anne Christelle found four places at a private hospital where the babies could be kept under intensive care.
When the grandfather of the quadruplets came to the hospital, he was informed of the situation and the need for the babies to be transferred to another hospital especially as the incubators at the maternity have not been designed to take care of babies below 1 kg.
