Health

Woman, 68, Delivers Twins at LUTH

Matilda Omonaiye/

Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, have successfully delivered a 68-year-old woman of a set of twins, a boy and girl, via cesarian session.

Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Prof. Wasiu Adeyemi, in a statement, said the woman who had never been pregnant before, concieved through IVF.

He said the feat was a first of its kind in any health facility in Africa.

He added that the mother and her babies are doing well.

The statement reads, “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 April 14, 2020.

“The IVF and embryo transfer were 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! Mother and babies are well.”

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