Pictured! Nigeria’s First Test-Tube Baby Secures Admission Into Varsity

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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