Three post-menopausal women have each delivered a set of twins at the Trustcare Specialist Hospital and Fertility Centre in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
They had undergone In-Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) at the facility and the deliveries occurred between a space of one month – November 16 and December 16, last year.<\/p>\n
Mr. Isaac Kofi Adu, a Clinical Embryologist, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the babies and their mothers were doing well.<\/p>\n
One of the women, aged 54 and a resident of Kumasi, had been married for 20 years without a child and gave birth to a set of twins, both boys, after her first IVF-ET attempt.<\/p>\n
There was also a\u00a0lady from Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo Region, aged\u00a055 years and married for 25 years without children.<\/p>\n
It was all joy to her family and friends when she was delivered of twins on last November 26.<\/p>\n
Another woman from Obuasi shared a similar story. At 54, she had been married for 30 and had been barren until she went in for the IVF-ET procedure.<\/p>\n
She is now the proud mother of twin girls.<\/p>\n
Mr. Adu said the Centre, since its establishment in year 2011, had assisted many childless women to have their own biological children, something that had brought happiness to their marriages.<\/p>\n
The challenge, he noted, had been the rising cost of drugs, which was making it difficult and preventing many a childless couple from seeking help there.<\/p>\n
Mr. Adu said its success rate had made it the preferred choice by many.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the facility had recorded its second delivery of quadruplets (three girls and a boy) and that happened on November 26.<\/p>\n
They were given birth to by a 44 year-old woman in Kumasi, married for 12 years without a child.<\/p>\n
The IVF-ET is a specialized process in medicine that is used to help couples who for various reasons cannot get pregnant naturally.<\/p>\n
In Ghana, the procedure was first introduced by a private specialist hospital in Tema in 1990.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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