One of the triplets delivered by a 25-year-old mother, Gloria Teye, who were abandoned by their father at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua has died. Hospital sources say financial difficulties have made it challenging for the mother to buy the prescription drugs she needs in time to take care of her babies. Gloria gave birth to the triplets at home at first, then to a nearby hospital, and then transferred to the Eastern Regional Hospital. The triplets are being cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and by Kangaroo Mother Care services, while their mother is still hospitalized. The father of the newborns, 36-year-old Samuel Boateng, a barber by profession at Nkurakan near Koforidua, abandoned the children after news got to him that his wife, with whom he already has four children, including a set of twins, had delivered triplets, according to an earlier report by starrfm.com.gh. "My husband left the hospital after the nurse informed him that I had given birth to triplets.