A consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. Abayomi Ajayi has bemoaned lack of monitoring agencies and dearth of statistical records to ascertain success rate of breakthroughs in reproductive health across the country.
Speaking in Asaba, Delta State at a forum tagged: Physicians' Roundtable, Dr. Abayomi specifically said it was difficult to determine the success rate of In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in the country due to lack of monitoring agencies.
The reproductive health expert told Daily Sun that success rate could only be determined at individual clinics where IVF services were rendered.
"We can't talk about success rate in Nigeria because there are no monitoring agencies. You can talk about success rate in your own clinic, that is what you know about your clinic. For us, our success rate is equal to what you find in advanced parts of the world," he said.
"When people say that IVF is expensive, I know that it is not cheap but I don't know if it is expensive. People, sometimes, have the idea that IVF is up to N5 million and something ridiculous, it is not, at least, I know of my own clinic.
"It is used for people who want to have children either because they are having problem bearing children or because they want to avoid a particular
genetic disorder or they are looking for a particular sex," he explained.
By Paul Osuyi
Daily Sun
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