Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2015-09-08
The newborns at the neonatal intensive care unit in Chenzhou. (Internet photo) |
A woman
from Chenzhou in south-central China's Hunan province delivered preterm
quadruplets on Aug. 28 and now has hefty medical fees to worry about, reports
local online news outlet xxcb.cn.
Zhong Yaxiang
grew up in a poor farming family before marrying Cao Yaoming, her junior high
school classmate. The couple moved to Shenzhen this year to find higher-paid
work in factories. Zhong then discovered she was pregnant.
She at
first thought she was expecting triplets but found out six months into the
pregnancy that it was in fact quadruplets. Zhong went to a number of different
hospitals for prenatal examinations and finally gave birth in the early morning
of Aug. 28 in the hospital in Chenzhou.
The babies,
who were born prematurely, are now in the hospital's neonatal intensive care
unit. Zhong said that she is nervous about being able to pay for her babies'
treatment, which costs 5,000 yuan (US$790) a day. "The care they need is
not going to be cheap and will probably cost 200,000 yuan (US$31,500) for
us," she said.
Her husband
Cao said they don't know where to turn for cash as they have already borrowed
at least 20,000 yuan (US$3,150) from relatives. The local government had given
them 10,000 yuan (US$1,570) as well. Their family members are looking for ways
to raise the money for the family's newest additions.
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