Villa Clara Hospital achieves first triplet birth in four years following fertilization in Mexico.

The "Mariana Grajales" Maternal Hospital in Villa Clara has just achieved its first triplet birth in four years, successfully delivered last Friday amidst one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in recent decades.

The official broadcaster CMHW reported that the fortunate parents, Dr. Aracelys Fleites León, a specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics, and her husband Yosami Álvarez Mora, an agricultural worker, were blessed with triplets after 15 years of attempts and infertility treatments.

Although the couple resides in the municipality of Encrucijada, Villa Clara, they underwent studies at the infertility consultation of the “Mariana Grajales” Maternal Hospital. Then, after receiving the diagnosis, they were referred to the “Ramón González Coro” Hospital in Havana for the procedure they needed, and subsequently received treatment at the IREGA Acapulco clinic in Mexico.

The mother explained that, first due to the restrictions imposed by Covid-19 and then because of the scarcity in Cuba, they were forced to travel to Mexico to be able to undergo the fertility procedure.

Fleites recalled the great joy of receiving the news she had waited a decade and a half for: "You can't imagine what I felt when they told me, 'you are pregnant,'" she told CMHW.

At the "Mariana Grajales" Hospital in Villa Clara, the mother received perinatal care, and since July 25, the date of the birth, her three babies, named Alicia, José Miguel, and José Antonio Álvarez Fleites, have received postnatal attention.

The babies were born at 32.6 weeks, almost 33, in good condition and with an appropriate weight for their gestational age. Although they are progressing favorably, they will be medically discharged when they reach 2500 grams.

Since 2020, the "Mariana Grajales" Hospital had not heard the simultaneous cries of triplets. On that occasion, Dayana Sifontes Linates gave birth to three sons, named Ángel Daniel, Joel Davis, and Danis Joel.

One of the latest reported deliveries of triplets in Cuba took place last April, when the first cesarean delivery of triplets for the year was performed at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University Hospital in the province of Holguín, with the mother and the newborns in perfect health.

"The patient lives in the Pedernales Popular Council and belongs to the Julio Grave de Peralta health area, in the city of Holguín," reported the official Periódico Ahora on Facebook.