Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

It is not often that you hear of triplets born in Sikkim, and when it happens, it is news. Three girls Ganga, Jamuna and Saraswati, named after the great rivers, this triplet was born in the centenary year of the STNM Hospital, Gangtok, on September 27, 2017. Born to the couple Man Bahadhur Tamang and Sapna Tamang from Lingmoo near Yangyang, South Sikkim. Interestingly, her mother told her that the ultrasound report did not mention the triplet. She was brought to the hospital in the evening, and the babies were born the next day.  The eldest of the girls weighs 2,600 gm, and the other two 1,800 gm Video : The Voice of Sikkim

This story is some 11 years old and I still have this newspaper cutting from the local newspaper "Sikkim Observer, Sept 19-25,1998". For the first time, I had heard of any quadruplet babies born to Sikkimese parents. Those babies included a boy and three girls born in Siliguri Hospital. I am not so sure what happened to them in later years. The parents Ongden Denzongpa and Phigu Bhutia were from Aritar, Rhenock if I am not wrong.