The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, on Sunday, 19th April 2020 has announced a 68-year-old woman (name withheld) was delivered of a set of twins in the hospital, and they are her first children.
The institution had on Sunday, without revealing the name of the new mother, displayed the photograph of the woman, her husband and the twins in its twitter handle.
According to a statement released on the twitter handle on Sunday, signed by the Chairman of the Medical Advisory Council, Professor W.L Adeyemo entitled: “LUTH successfully delivered a 68-year-old of a twin”, the woman, who gave birth to a boy and a girl through Caesarean Section, conceived the children through In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF).
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“LUTH has successfully delivered a 68-year-old primigravida (pregnant for the first time) with twin (a male and a female) gestation (pregnancy) following an IVF conception. She was delivered through an elective Caesarean section at 37 weeks gestation on Tuesday, 14 April 2020.
“The IVF and embryo transfer was done at an outside facility. She was thereafter referred to LUTH at early gestation and subsequently managed till term.
“This is the first in LUTH, Nigeria and Africa! Mothers and babies are well.”
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