{"id":22768,"date":"2026-01-14T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:47:08","slug":"ghana-makes-history-with-worlds-1st-quadruplets-from-traditional-surrogacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22768\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana makes history with world\u2019s 1st quadruplets from traditional surrogacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Ghana-makes-history-with-world-s-1st-quadruplets-from-traditional-surrogacy-2017208?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/80824950.295.jpg\" alt=\"The quadruplets were delivered through Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI)\" title=\"The quadruplets were delivered through Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI)\" width=\"295\" height=\"225\" \/> <\/a>The quadruplets were delivered through Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI)<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghana has reportedly made history in the medical field by delivering the world\u2019s first set of quadruplets from traditional surrogacy.<\/p>\n<p>The four babies &#8211; two boys and two girls &#8211; were delivered at Walking Egg Medical Infertility Centre on January 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the centre, Dr Nana Yaw Osei, who announced this achievement, indicated that there has been no record of quadruplets being delivered through surrogacy in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy New Year to you all. I&#8217;m glad to inform you that Walking Egg Medical Infertility Centre recorded quadruplets today &#8211; that&#8217;s four babies from one pregnancy. So, we&#8217;ve made history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was through intra-uterine insemination (IUI) in Ghana. I know many children have come from IUI. We&#8217;ve had quadruplets from IVF, but I&#8217;m yet to find out whether there has been any recorded incident of quadruplets from IUI,\u201d he said in a video shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Ghana-eyes-Medical-Tourism-as-a-gateway-to-quality-healthcare-1978240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana eyes Medical Tourism as a gateway to quality healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Daily Graphic after the delivery, Dr Osei said there were no complications, and the babies were healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe surrogate experienced no major complications. We delivered at 36 weeks as a precaution, and all four babies were reviewed by paediatricians and found to be very healthy,\u201d he is quoted to have said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the doctors\u2019 remarks below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Ghana Makes History with World&#8217;s First Quadruplets from Traditional Surrogacy\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded\ud83d\udc9a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tmpcghana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@tmpcghana<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S9wk8A8kaT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/S9wk8A8kaT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Popo\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddfc\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded (@Popony_J) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Popony_J\/status\/2011163743028420644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 13, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>BAI\/AE<\/p>\n<p>Which party leaves government with its finance minister missing \u2013 Ex Subin MP loses cool on Ofori-Atta<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quadruplets were delivered through Intra-Uterine Insemination (IUI) Ghana has reportedly made history in the medical field by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79],"class_list":{"0":"post-22768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-ghana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}