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.”
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