This was revealed recently by the Managing Director, Nordica Fertility Centre, Lagos, Dr. Abayomi Ajayi at the clinic’s 10th year anniversary celebration. According to Ajayi, the rising male factor infertility in Nigeria can be blamed largely on environment and lifestyle.
Speaking in the same vein, Prof. Stanley Okolo, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with North Middlesex University hospital, London, stated that “There are rising cases of infertility in the country. It is usually a male factor issue. Most of the infertility cases in Nigeria are due to problems with men. These issues especially low sperm count are because of environmental issues and lifestyles. Several studies even in Denmark have shown that male sperm count is plummeting.
“The earlier they go for treatment, the better because the age of a woman can determine the success of any treatment. Men should stop blaming women for the problem. Both male and female factors can cause infertility”.
Okolo further disclosed that low sperm count is the commonest infertility in men. According to him, men with this condition cannot impregnate their wives no matter how hard they try.
“Infections can cause this condition in men. A lot f people can also be born with this condition, while some inherit it. However, blockage of the fallopian tubes, ovulation disorders and fibroids can be responsible for infertility in women” he added.
Hundreds of well-wishers, including the dozens of happy couples who have been enabled to give birth to their own babies, through the numerous assisted reproduction techniques, ART, graced the joyous event.
Notable among the gaily dressed guests was Master Julian Oluchukwu Onwudijo – the first baby conceived through a combined ART procedure of IVF/ICSI and delivered through Caesarean Section.
Julian was born September 14, 2004 to Emmanuel and Francesca Onwudijo. Also the cynosure of all eyes, were the Shofunlayo quintuplets, popularly called “Five Alive” – Eyitayo, Eyitope, Eyitomini, Eyimofe and Eyidayo, children of Wale and Olayemi Shofunlayo. Conceived at Nordica, the babies were born December 2011 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH.
As part of efforts to enable more Nigerians benefit from In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) test, the clinic during her week-long anniversary event offered free pre-IVF treatment screening for all couples looking for the fruits of the womb while three among these were granted 100 percent IVF treatment.
Over the last 10 years, the fertility centre has birthed over 1000 babies true the means of test tube technology well known as IVF.
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