We have delivered hundreds of IVF babies - NORDICA...Promises free fertility services nationwide

As part of its 10th year anniversary and provision of community services, NORDICA Fertility Centre has promised to offer free medical services to patients with infertility issues nationwide.
Managing director, NORDICA Fertility Centre, Lagos, Dr. Abayomi Ajayi, said the free medical service would only be made available on  April  20 at all NORDICA centres.
According to him, the service would grant the underprivileged access to free fertility check up and consultation.
Ajayi , while speaking during a press conference to kick start the anniversary of the centre,  said a lot of misconceptions had been made about the In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) programme thereby, losing opportunities to become parents.
He said IVF children were perfectly normal children as against the way people felt about them and calling them names such as “test tube babie.”
The consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist said “the primary aim  of the centre  was to courageously combat the plague of infertility by providing true ‘comfort centres’ where the pain of childless couples could be soothed both emotionally and medically.”
He went further to say in their 10 years of existence; they had been able to provide services such as comprehensive Gynecological Assessment, Sperm Donation, In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), Artificial Insemination, Ovulation Induction, Cycle Monitoring, and Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) among others. “We have been able to assist in the conception of several hundreds of babies and we are still counting.”
Clinic Manager, Tola Ajayi, speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, said women should not be shy about issues of infertility but should go out for proper tests and consultations to know the real cause of their inability to conceive children.
 “If you have another solution then you can shy away but if you do not, you just must come out. Infertility is not a disease as people think. If you are married without children, people know and when they see you in a fertility clinic then, they will know you have gone to seek for help. Why keep quiet, why not come out and seek help.”
Ajayi further reassured that our babies are normal babies, everything about them is normal. Knowledge is key, come out and seek knowledge. If you have a problem at age 26 and you refuse to treat it, you would still have it at age 35 so why not treat it now that it is still young,” adding that the IVF had no age limit but it was better to avoid it on women in their late 50s.
The Managing Director, however, solicited government and governmental agencies’ support regarding rules and partnership to assist those that could not afford the consultations.