Yemi Obafemi
The Chief Medical Director, Benue Teaching Hospital , Dr Stephen Hwande has appreciated the state governor, Gov. Hyacinth Alia for approving the recruitment of 400 new staff for the newly established In Vitro Fertilization unit in Benue State University Teaching Hospital.
He said the recruitment is part of the governor effort in fulfilment of his campaign of providing employment for the youth.
Speaking in Makurdi, Hwande explained that the IVF services was to make the procedure accessible to women with challenge of infertility.
The In Vitro Fertilization unit which assist women in reproduction battling with infertility, the CMD said only a few public hospitals in Nigeria offer the services due to the high cost, He said “You may not find up to five teaching hospitals that are involved in IVF in Nigeria. So with this, BSUTH is being put on the map of teaching hospitals that are involved in IVF.”
The CMD said the hospital has started IVF services, saying that 25 women with infertility issues have been scheduled for IVF services in the hospital between April and May 2024.
He said, “They are the hospital’s first batch of women to access IVF services and we are going to run that at the Muhammadu Buhari annexe of the hospital.
“Gov. Hyacinth Alia has directed that the services should be subsidised for these women in this first batch.
“They are already in process and it will be completed between April and the first week of May. These women will go through assisted reproduction.”
The CMD said: “Among the new employees are 60 medical doctors, 140 nurses, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, paediatric surgeons, as well as other cadre of staff that will man some critical areas of need at the teaching hospital”.
