Nigeria’s First IVF Baby to Study Medicine in a Hungarian University

Nigeria’s first “test tube baby,” Miss Hannatu Kupchi, has secured admission into a Hungarian University to study medicine, Vanguard Newspaper reports. The medical doctor that supervised the first In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) experiment in Nigeria, Dr. Ibrahim Wada, said Hannatu’s birth on February 11, 1998, at Nisa Premier Hospital in Abuja, signalled a revolution in the practice of medicine in Nigeria. Speaking on Sunday evening in Abuja during a brief reception and presentation of an award to Kupchi, he said, “When I was out of this country, I knew there were people who wanted babies. I made the decision to come back to Nigeria to help people. It happened on February 11, 1998 when this historic event occurred in this hospital.” Kupchi promised to break barriers and become a doctor in order to help families and parents who are unable to give birth through the traditional means. She said by her birth, misconceptions about IVF were broken and that many more children had been brought into this world as well. “I am very grateful to be sent off like this. It is not everybody that gets this opportunity. God has a big hand in this. God was behind me. I want God to use me get more children. I am hoping that through me God will make people see the value of having children. I will specialize in gynaecology and obstetrics. I barely made it beyond the cut off mark. God helped me. I am going to try my best and make everyone proud. I am studying medicine because I want to be a doctor. I want to study it because I want God to use me to help families who suffer what my parents went through,” she added.