NIGERIA RECORDS FIRST BABY FROM FROZEN EGG

Nigeria has recorded the first successful birth of a baby conceived from frozen egg of a 44 year-old woman, who had suffered infertility for eight years, making it the first in the country and West Africa. The birth and conception of the baby, named Tiwatope, which is the 5001st in the world, was carried out by Nigerian fertility specialists at The Bridge Clinic, a Lagos-based fertility treatment centre, where the mother had her eggs frozen using the vitrification (flash-freezing) process. The birth of the baby on February 16, 2016, effectively puts Nigeria on the global map as regards the practice of oocyte (egg) freezing or cryopreservation, a new offering in the in-vitro fertilization (IVF) process. Prior to the birth of Tiwatope, the new practice seemed to be the exclusive preserve of the developed world of Europe and North America.



1st Test Tube Baby in Black Africa is now 34 years old
On March 17, 1989 history was made at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital when the first test tube Baby in Black Africa (comprising of West, East and Central Africa), conceived through the delicate In-Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) method was born. The bouncing baby boy named, Olushina, Eghosa, Oluwaremilekun, is nature’s gift to the family of Mr & Mrs Pius Oni and the crowning glory of five years of painstaking research endeavours of Professors Osato Giwa-Osagie, an Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Oladapo Ashiru, an Endocrinologist, both of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH Idiaraba, Surulere, Lagos.The lad then, thus, became the First TestTube Baby in East, West and Central Africa. Read more at: www.ivfhistorynigeria.blogspot.com









Sunday, May 15, 2011

* Ayomide Clinic

*Ayomide Women’s Health Specialist Hospital &Fertility (IVF) Centre
30, Gate 2, Powerstation, Powerline,
Ikirun Road, Opp. Dayus Petrol Station,
Oshogbo, Osun State
Tel: 08161832528 ; 07060916229
Email: ayomidefert@gmail.com


Medical Director: Dr. Johnson Komolafe

Set up date: February 2010
1st IVF Cycle: March 19, 2012.





*Balm AJEC  Fertility Hospital Limited
(Balm of Gilead Fertility Centre)
Oke - Opo, GRA; Opposite NNPC petrol Station,
Off Ayeso Road,

Ilesha, Osun state.
Telephone: +234-8037151125, +234-8033567495

Website: www.balmajec.com
Medical Director: Dr. Alexander T. Owolabi
 
*Bridge Clinic
Dr. Ajayi

Plot 1397A Tiamiyu Savage Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos.

Tel: 01-2623268 ; 2610686

Email: bridge@om.metrong.com ; info@thebridgeclinic.com
Website: www.thebridgeclinic.com
Medical Director: Dr. Richardson A. Ajayi

Ikeja Centre:

63 Oduduwa Crescent,

Ikeja G.R.A,

Lagos.

Tel:
07028806815 ; 01-4485401-2

Port Harcourt Centre:
41A Evo Road,

G.R.A Phase II, Port Harcourt.

Tel: 084-465 003 – 5


Kaduna Centre:
26 Kinshasa Road,
Ungwa Rimi GRA,
Kaduna North, Kaduna State
Tel: 00234- (84) 0819 140 2315

Set up date: 1999









*Care Fertility Hospital


1, Angas Way, Before FEPA Quarters,


Karu site, Abuja, Nigeria


Tel: 080 6424 4977 ; 08074197037


Email: mail@care-fertility.org



Medical Director: Dr. John Okechukwu Ene






*Charitos BO
Dr. Benprosper Onoja
Plot D22, Aco Estate,
Opp. Godab Estate,
Life Camp,
Abuja FCT.
Telephone:  +234 8141911401 ; 09084858040
Email: enquires@charitosbo.com


Medical Director: Dr. Benprosper Onoja


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