The Chief Medical Director of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Professor Chris Bode has hinted of the rise in the numbers of babies born through In-Vitro Fertilization, IVF, in the state.
Prof. Bode, a consultant Paediatric Surgeon, dropped this hint in an interview with The Guardian when repudiating claims that LUTH’s services were not up to scratch and its workers treated patients like shit.
“We don’t have power failures in LUTH anymore because since December 2017 our Independent Power Plant (IPP) has been working. That complaint that people used to say there is not light is over. We are excited about it because the gas-powered generating plant is working. It is IPP, we have 24-hour electricity now. These are indices of growth. Our water supply is good. We bought several new ventilators into our Intensive Care Unit (ICU), High Dependency Unit (HDU). Our stroke unit is working and so many facilities are working that people are now beginning to repose their faith and confidence in the hospital again.
“… Go to the Advanced Fertility Centre/In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), their rate was 52 per cent pregnancy per cycle last year. That is as high as anywhere in the world. If you achieve 30 per cent, they call you Baba. We are having triplets, twins, and singletons quietly. Those things are working the way they should. Emeritus Professor Osato Giwa-Osagie is the head of the IVF centre,” he told the paper.
