VANCOUVER , British Columbia—One of the six babies born last week to a Vancouver -area couple in Canada 's first delivery of sextuplets has died, a radio station reported Monday.
The sextuplets have been in intensive care since they were born prematurely after 25 weeks of gestation, but one died late last week, CKNW Radio reported, citing sources within British Columbia Women's Hospital.
Hospital officials declined to comment, citing the family's request for privacy since the four boys and two girls were delivered. The family's name has never been made public.
The radio report did not say whether the dead sextuplet was a boy or girl.
Doctors say babies born in Canada after only 25 weeks have, on average, an 80 percent survival rate and are normally required to stay in intensive care for about 100 days.
But medical officials have also said that care for the babies in this case could be more complicated because the parents are members of the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination, which objects to the use of blood transfusions.
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