Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) has recorded a major milestone with the introduction of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) services to restore hope for childless couples.
The milestone was achieved by a team from the hospital’s assisted reproductive technology unit and other specialists.
Dr Ibrahim Rais, Chief Consultant Gynaecologist and IVF Specialist at AKTH, disclosed this in a video shared on the hospital’s official Facebook page.
Rais said the team has collected eggs from two women and semen samples from their husbands for the next stage of the IVF procedure.
“Today marks a great milestone in the history of AKTH and IVF service provision in the institution.
“The hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Abdulrahman Sheshe, and his team have been working assiduously, and today we have achieved this great milestone of the first egg collection in this institution.
“We have collected eggs from two women and also collected semen samples from their husbands. The eggs collected will be fertilised with their husbands’ sperm, and we hope to achieve success.
“We are going to continue the service with three more patients and then cap it up on Sunday with the last patient,” he said.
Rais said the commencement of the service will bring IVF closer to the teeming population and restore hope among couples suffering from infertility.
“It is also important to note that starting IVF services in AKTH has been a very important development because the centre will form one of the points for service provision to the teeming population needing IVF services.
“It will form a centre of excellence for training in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine.
“We have extracted more than a dozen eggs for now. Embryologists are working assiduously to ensure that there is fertilisation by the sperm of the patients who had the procedure.
“We will go on to get more eggs that will generate more embryos and translate to potentially more Nigerians,” Rais said.
The hospital, in a brief statement on its official handle, said the milestone was achieved through the collaborative efforts of AKTH staff, specialist reproductive health experts from Jos and Abuja, and two embryologists.
It described the development as a significant step towards expanding advanced fertility services and bringing hope closer to residents.
The hospital congratulated the entire AKTH team for attaining this new feat.
