Medical experts proffer solutions to fertility challenge between couples

Medical experts on Tuesday proffered solutions to fertility challenges between couples.

The experts, from Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos highlighted the solutions in during the faculty’s 20th annual scientific conference and gathering, in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the conference had as its theme: “Women’s Reproductive Health, Navigating the Labyrinth with Silent Heroes.”

Speaking at the occasion, a professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Christian Makwe, described women seeking fertility care as silent heroes.

Makwe, who said that infertility might result from female and male factors, highlighted the treatment options to include: ovulation induction, Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) surrogacy and adoption.

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According to him, the success of ART depends on certain things, such as patient/couple factors and clinician/clinic related factors.

In his own contribution, the Dean of the faculty, Prof. Olufemi Fasanmade, said that the theme of the conference focused on how smiles could be put on the faces of couple facing infertility problem.

Fasanmade said that the guest lecturer was able to establish that it was not only women that has infertility problem, as there are both male and female factors.

He submitted that that if couples presented themselves early in the hospital, infertility could be treatable.

Also, Rufus Ojewola, Chairman, Scientific Sub-committee of the faculty, said that the conference spoke to women’s reproductive health.

Ojewola said that emphasis was always on women as regards infertility, adding, however, that 50 per cent of infertility are caused by male factors and the remaining half by female factors.