About 17 years after
she was born through In Vitro Fertilisation, Nigeria’s first test tube baby,
Miss Hannatu Kupchi, has secured admission into a Hungarian University to study
medicine.
The medical doctor that
supervised the first IVF experiment in Nigeria, Dr. Ibrahim Wada, said
Hannatu’s birth on February 11, 1998, at Nisa Premier Hospital in Abuja,
signalled a revolution in the practice of medicine in Nigeria.
Speaking on Sunday
evening in Abuja during a brief reception and presentation of an award to
Kupchi, he 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.”
Responding, Kupchi
promised to break barriers and become a doctor in order to help families and
parents who are unable to give birth through the traditional means.
She said by her birth,
misconceptions about IVF were broken and that many more children had been
brought into this world as well.
“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,” she said.
In his remarks, father
of Hannatu, Mr. Hosea Kupchi, 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.”
- Punch
God is wonderful!
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