“I had to
come all the way from Oyo State to Ekiti for the IVF,” she said.
A 63-year-old woman, Temitope
Ogundipe, has been delivered of a baby boy through In In Vitro
Fertilisation (IVF) at Olives Specialist Hospital, Ado-Ekiti.
Mrs
Ogundipe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ado-Ekiti that she
was full of joy because of the baby.
She
said that faith in God and support from her husband kept her going after many
years of childlessness.
According
to her, she had tried to have a child for many years and had gone to many
hospitals for solution to her childlessness, but all proved abortive.
“I
have tried this IVF before now and it failed. It was a friend who introduced
this particular hospital to me.
“I
had to come all the way from Oyo State to Ekiti for the IVF,” she said.
She appreciated the Medical Director of Olives Specialist
Hospital, Adebayo Adeniyi, for his words of encouragement, calmness and support
throughout the process of the IVF.
Mrs
Ogundipe called on women looking for “this kind of precious gift” not to lose
hope and said “if God can do it for me at the age of 63 years, He can also do
it for them.”
She
advised young women with problems of childlessness to seek help from
specialists as early as possible.
Meanwhile,
the medical director of the hospital has expressed happiness over the delivery
of the baby, and
ascribed the success to the Almighty God and the entire
dedicated medical team.
“The
hospital has recorded significant successes in IVF treatment within a short
time,” Mr Adeniyi said.
He
appealed to government to subsidise IVF treatment and said infertility should
be seen as a disease that deserved adequate attention like other chronic
diseases throug“This will go a long way in
assisting couples who are unable to access IVF because of the high cost,’’ he added. (NAN)h
the National Health Insurance Scheme, (NHIS) coverage.
