Inside Ekiti Private Hospital Where IVF Treatment for Couples, Individuals Is Made Easy
• As 60-Year-Old Woman Conceives and Delivers Baby After Visiting Facility
In the heart of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, is the Olive Specialist Clinics and Fertility Center. Located along Tinuola school in the Housing area of the state capital, the iconic and well placed facility has in the last few years changed the story of couples and individuals who had long been expecting babies.
From its multi-million naira technological equipment, trained workforce and the expertise of the Medical Director, the hospital has proven to be one of the few centres in Nigeria where couples and individuals visit for their IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) treatment with more success rate.
IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) is a type of assisted reproductive technology (ART) that helps individuals or couples get pregnant by fertilizing an egg with sperm outside the body. The process involves stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs, retrieving them, fertilizing them with sperm in a lab, and then transferring the resulting embryo(s) into the uterus for potential implantation.
The Medical Director of Olive Specialist Clinics and Fertility Center, Professor Adebayo Augustine Adeniyi, said the facility in the last few years has delivered no fewer than 123 babies through the IVF treatment.
He added that a recent case was the one delivered by a 60-year-old woman who conceived through IVF at the center and delivered the baby after decades of waiting for the fruit of the womb.
The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist noted that the cost of the treatment is affordable compared to other centers in the country, calling on couples and individuals still hoping to have their babies visit the center for the IVF treatment.
” As of now we have 123 babies born through IVF in this centre. Last month (August) alone, we had Nine babies.Some of them were not delivered here. I delivered three myself
” We have 81 single babies, 20 twins and we have eight sets of triplets,” he said.
Professor Adeniyi further said, ” We have been doing that but our name actually came out in 2022 when the oldest patient to deliver through IVF was delivered here.
“That is one Mrs Tope, she was in the news. She was 63-year-old that time and we begin to have referral from many places across the world.
” I have friends that invited me to big cities like Port Harcourt,Rivers State saying that I will make more money there, because the price in Ekiti can’t be the same in those places.
“I said somebody must be in Ekiti doing it and I have patients coming from abroad such as Canada, United Kingdom because it is quite expensive over there if you convert to our currency, it will be around N30 million but here by the time you spend N4 million you are done so a lot of them come from abroad to do it in my facility here.
“So like I said we have been referring our patients to various places to deliver. I am sure you heard recently that a 60-year-old woman delivered through IVF at ABUAD, in fact I didn’t know she was sixty.
“Fortunately she conceived through IVF here but since she live along Polytechnic road I said that will be too much stress for her , first she is old and because I like my patients to be coming frequently to the hospital so I can see them I said she should register anywhere near her place and I will call the Doctors there, infact we have had two triplets delivered at ABUAD before now.”
On the causes of delay in pregnancy from some women and how it can be prevented, the medical expert said, ” the commonest cause in the blockage of the tube is infection, poorly treated infections by a woman, those ones we call toilet disease. They are not toilet diseases, they call them pelvic infections and come from maybe through an unprotected sex.
” It affects the uterus in the womb and blocks the tiny tube, that is what we can blockage of the tube. When a woman has this infection, which is really common, the first symptom you will see with the infection is that they have abdominal vaginal discharge.
” The prevention we are talking about is for those who can do it before getting married, abstinence from sex. But here we are not preaching abstinence too much because we know we are not trying to be hypocritical. People probably cannot hold on, they can’t keep their body.
” So, we preach the use of condom. Condom is protective, we call it condom, a two-edged sword. It protects against infection and also protects unwanted pregnancy and unfortunately, about 80% of unmarried people don’t use condom in our society today.”
