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57 year old woman delivers baby
A Lagos based principal consultant, obstentrician and gynaecologist of St. Ive's Specialist Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. tunde Okewale has called on the Government to subsidise the cost of invitro fertilization.... ...read more


Infection major cause of infertility
Principal consultant obstentrician and gynaecologist of St. Ive's Specialist Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. tunde Okewale has identified infection to be the main cause of high rate of infertility amongst Nigerian couples... ...read more


Infertile woman to resolve to ivf
What has endeared many women to this handsome and brilliant man of stethoscope is his ability to perform invitro fetilization (IVF) a major treatment in infertility... ...read more


IVF saved 20 yrs marriage
If only Felicia knew she could be relieved of her infertility problem with money, she coauld not have spent decades in agony looking for a child, notwithstanding the embarassment from her husband's relations... ...read more


Lagos hospital delivers first IVF baby
On 7th June, 11 months after opening it's doors to patients requiring advanced fertility treatment, St. Ive's Hospital Lagos, recorded the delivery of the first live delivery of a baby through invitro fertilization. ...read more


Other IVF centre
The hospital sits snugly on a plot of land on the high-brow Mojidi street of the famous Toyin Stree, Ikeja. The one storey building looks compact and inviting... ...read more


People see ivf as last resort
A special interview with the principal consultant, obstentrician and gynaecologist of St. Ive's Specialist Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. tunde Okewale, where he speaks about his modest success story and why doctors should operate within their area of specialization... ...read more


Succor for infertile couple
A scommon phenomenon among couples generally today is inability to produce children easily, but experts says there is a way out of the predicament... ...read more


US Teen birth rate hits record low in 2009
Teen births in the United states reached a record low in 2009, as births to teenager fell 6% from the previous year to the lowest level seen in almost seven decades, health officials reported Tuesday... ...read more


New hospital facility to reduce brain drain
Geared towards improved healthcare services, through public and private efforts, lagos State Governor, Babtunde Raji Fashola has commissioned a newly built hospital complex of St. Ive's Specialist Hospital at Ikeja, Lagos... ...read more


Fashola lauds private hospitals
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), has hailed the contributions of private hospitals to the development of the countey's healthcare delivery sector, saying that their importance cannot be overemphasized... ...read more


Fashola Opens st. Ives Hospital
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has opened the st. Ives Hospital, a newly built ultra-modernhospital complex at Opebi Road, Ikeja... ...read more


A good hospital is more than fanciful buildings
Dr. Tunde Okewale, says, it is not that Nigeria lacks good doctors, but what is missing is right equipments to work with... ...read more


Ives of Hope
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At home with father of 200 children
If Dr. Tunde Okewale were to claim every child born through his IVF intervention, they number in hundreds. This he told Funke Olaode, is his source of happiness... ...read more

 

 

* Both fallopian tubes absent or blocked due to surgery, ectopic pregnancy or infections.

* Endometriosis 

* Reduced sperm count and motility.

* When all other treatment such as ovulation induction and intra uterine insemination has proven unsuccessful.

* Patients with unexplained infertility

* Patients who have failed to get pregnant in spite of all routines treatment for infertility

* Patients who want to get pregnant by the procedures of embryo and egg donation.

* Advanced female age > 38 years.

IVF procedures
IVF treatment involves the administration of fertility drugs, monitoring of the circle, collection of eggs, mixing egg and sperm together outside the woman’s body in a culture dish or test tube. Any resulting embryos are left to grow and the best embryos 2 - 3 are then transferred into the woman’s womb. Any remaining embryo of good quality may be frozen for future use.
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