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Miss
Hannatu Kupchi
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About 17 years after she
was born through In Vitro Fertilization, Nigeria’s first test tube baby, Miss
Hannatu Kupchi, has secured admission into a Hungarian University to study
medicine. The
medical doctor that supervised the first 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.”
The Punch report continues:
Responding,
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
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 said.
In his remarks, father of
Hannatu, Mr. Hosea Kupchi, said, “We had 13 years of marriage without a child
and we went through the orthodox method without any success. But along the
line, my sister-in-law told me that there was one Dr. Wada that had been
helping couples. That is how we came.”
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