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| Dr. Ajayi |
Speaking in Asaba during the Physicians' Roundtable
with the theme 'Personalised IVF: New Techniques to Improve Success Rate',
Ajayi decried the lack of monitoring agencies and dearth of records to ascertain
the success rate of breakthroughs in reproductive health across the country.
He said: "We can't talk about success rate in
Nigeria because there are no monitoring agencies. You can talk about success
rate in your own clinic that is what you know about your clinic. For us, our
success rate is equal to what you find in advanced parts of the world."
While saying that the success rate can only
determined at the individual clinics where IVF services are rendered, Ajayi who
is the Managing Director of Nordica Fertility Centre, debunked the claim in
some quarters that IVF services were beyond the reach of citizens at the lower
rung of the economic ladder.
"When people say that IVF is expensive, I know
that it is not cheap but I don't know if it is expensive. People sometimes have
the idea that IVF is up to N5 million above. It is not, at least I know in my
own clinic. What I say most of the time is that, if you can buy a fairly used
car, you can get IVF. So, you have to find out how much it is in the clinic you
are going to and know how to access it. It is not cheap but it is not as
expensive as people think.
"IVF involves the process of bringing the egg
and the sperm together outside the body, and then the embryo that is formed is
flushed back into the woman with the hope that it becomes a baby. It is used
for people who want to have children either because they are having problem
bearing children or because they want to avoid a particular genetic disorder or
they are looking for a particular sex."
By Festus Ahon
Source: vanguardnews
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