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| - A 25-year-old Malian woman pregnant with septuplets will be flown to Morocco over the weekend for better treatment, Mali's health ministry said on Friday. Cases of women successfully carrying septuplets to term are rare, and the health ministry said the woman has been in hospital in the capital Bamako for two weeks. Doctors recommended moving her to Morocco from Mali, a poor and conflict-ridden Sahel nation, "for better medical monitoring of the extraordinary pregnancy," the ministry said in a statement. The woman, who is from the northern town of Timbuktu according to local media reports, will be flown at government expense. Interim President Bah N'Daw has also personally contributed towards the costs, according to the health ministry. "Everyone understands that after the lady's delivery, the overall care of the seven babies she is expecting will be another challenge," the statement said. The ministry added that the woman and her family will face the challenge "without any doubt, with the help of ever-supportive Malians". An American woman successfully gave birth to septuplets in 1997. A 40-year-old Saudi woman also did so in 1998, as well as a 27-year-old Egyptian woman in 2008. bur-siu/blb/eml/ach
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