ST IVES HOSPITAL OFFERS PROMO ON IVF

IN order to assist couples in need of fertility treatment, St.Ives along with its foundation and benefactors, has announced plans to slash the price of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) to N400, 000 for couples in need of it in the month of October 2012.

St.Ives Medical Director, Dr. Tunde Okewale, who made the announcement in Lagos recently, said the high price of IVF in the country was preventing couples who could have
benefited from it from accessing it.
He explained that IVF was becoming expensive in Nigeria because of the high cost of importing its consumables, equipment and staff training.
The fertility expert explained that couples who are interested in the promo needed to enroll with N400, 000 at the hospital in Ikeja, Lagos, between September 14 and 29 to benefit.
He called on government to put in place a programme that would help subsidise the cost of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) for couples in need of fertility treatment as obtained in most developed countries of the world.
Okewale noted that Nigeria was ripe for IVF practice regulation, but advised that caution should
be exercised not to import the British mode of regulation into the country so as not to stifle the practice as is being done over there.
He added that regulatory codes should take cognizance of Nigeria’s environment, cultural and religious practices especially as it concerns childbearing.

The promo is the third in the series of IVF promos offered by the hospital for the past two years. Okewale said the hospital had recorded 30 per cent success rate in each promo, a 15 per cent higher success rate than what obtains in a one-month trial of natural conception.

He added that past IVF
promos had always drawn couples across the federation, especially from the northern part of the country, to obtain infertility treatment at a cheaper rate. A single circle of IVF goes from N800, 000 upwards in Nigeria.
Okewale said, “there are quite a number of couples that need IVF. Unfortunately, the cost of IVF in our
environment is quite high. Unlike many other countries of the world where it is subsidised, it is not subsidised in Nigeria. But it is quite painful to see
couples that could get pregnant through ART, cannot access it because of funds.
IVF is an expensive procedure. In most IVF clinics, it costs between N800 to over a N1 million to do one circle. But we know that is quite expensive for majority of our people.
So the practice over the years is that only people who can afford it that have access to it.
Meanwhile, we find people who may have benefited from it not able to afford it. So over the last two years, an arm of our hospital, St.Ives Foundation, together with some of our benefactors, decided that at a specific time of the year we would do price slash
of IVF.”

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Infertility: St Ives crashes IVF cost

Respite last week, came the way of Nigerian couples seeking high standard fertility treatment as St Ives Hospital is offering 50 per cent discounts for a cycle of its Invitro-Fertilisation (IVF) to childless couples who ordinarily wanted the IVF option but canuld not afford to pay for the service.
Research has shown that one out of every four couples or 25 percent of couples are fertility_challenged and would require one sort of intervention or the other. Hence, the appreciable demand of Assisted Reproductive Treatment, ART, solutions, such as IVF.
The issue of cost has remained a problem to fertility-challenged couples. At least, a regular IVF cycle in any standard fertility treatment facility costs an average of N800, 000 depending on the centre.
Announcing the price slash in Lagos, the Chief Medical Director of St Ives Hospital, Dr. Tunde Okewale said “Normally, a cycle of IVF treatment costs minimum of N800, 000, but it has been reduced to N400, 000 including the cost of injection, drugs and treatment”
Okewale who decried the rising cases of infertility among Nigerians said the reduction which is being coordinated through its Foundation was part of activities to celebrate the hospital’s 15th anniversary.
Explaining the rationale behind the initiative, he said it was aimed at alleviating challenges of couples in achieving pregnancy as well as raising the bar in infertility treatment.
We decided to slash the cost of treatment in commemoration of the 15thth anniversary of the hospital, specially to appreciate the numerous patients, who believed in the hospital to deliver unequalled medical service over the past 15 years.
This is our own little way of assisting couples who have been waiting and expecting to have their own children. It presents a rare opportunity for couples who have been married for years to come to our hospital and receive world class IVF treatment that will bring joy and laughter to their lives forever, instead of wallowing in pain and being miserable” he said.
Stating that IVF, is one of the landmark achievements in medical practice, he said the special offer would run through the month of October, but for couples to enjoy this discounted rate, they must register for the treatment at its ultra-modern hospital located on Salvation road, Opebi, Ikeja.between September 14 and 28, 2011 after which the former rate would apply.
It is on record that St Ives hospital delivered the oldest IVF mother in Nigeria. 57 year old Mrs. Adeyemi Taiwo last year. through the IVF unit of the hospital.