01 September, 2015

Seventeen Year-Old First Test-tube Baby In Nigeria Gains Admission To Study Medicine

A revolution was spiralled in the practice of Nigerian medicine when Miss Hannatu Kupchi, the Nigeria’s first test-tube baby was born through In Vitro Fertilisation in an experiment conducted about 17 years ago.
 
Miss Hannatu Kupchi
Dr Ibrahim Wada, the medical doctor that supervised the process and her birth on February 11, 1998 at Nisa Premier Hospital, Abuja during the occasion of an award of to Miss Kupchi said:  “When I was out of this country, I knew there were people who wanted babies. I made the decision to come back to Nigeria to help people. It happened on February 11, 1998 when this historic event occurred in this hospital.”

Miss Kupchi who just secured admission to study medicine at a Hungarian University remarked that she would strive at breaking all barriers and become a medical doctor who would be cut out to help families who finds it difficult to procreate through the traditional means.

She added that by the reason of her birth misconstrued perceptions of IVF
 were set right while stating that more children have been given birth to using this procedure.

In her words:  “I barely made it beyond the cut off mark. God helped me. I am going to try my best and make everyone proud. I am studying medicine because I want to be a doctor. I want to study it because I want God to use me to help families who suffer what my parents went through.”
Her father stating their ordeal said, “We had 13 years of marriage without a child and we went through the orthodox method without any success. But along the line, my sister-in-law told me that there was one Dr Wada that had been helping couples. That is how we came.”





Source: The Punch

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