A 70-year-old woman, identified as Safina Namukwaya, has given birth to twins in Uganda.

BBC reports that Namukwaya delivered a boy and a girl via caesarean section at a fertility clinic in Kampala.

The 70-year-old reportedly underwent an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment for conception.

IVF is a procedure that involves combining egg and sperm outside the body and implanting the resulting embryo into the uterus to achieve pregnancy.

Edward Tamale Sali, the doctor who supervised her pregnancy and delivery, said both the mother and babies are in good health and remain under observation at the clinic.

Namukwaya, while expressing her joy, described her twin’s birth as a “miracle” at a time when she was considered too weak to bear a child.

This is not Namukwaya’s first experience with late-in-life childbirth.

She told a privately owned TV channel that she gave birth to a baby girl, also through IVF treatment in 2020