DAR ES SALAAM: THE Kairuki Green IVF Centre has managed to help several women who were unable to get pregnant, with record indicate that for the past two years such women managed to deliver 85 babies.
Established in 2022, the centre is looking forward to having 100 babies delivered by end of December this year. This has been revealed on Thursday, during a visit by the First Lady of Malawi, Monica Chakwera to the centre.
The Malawian First Lady expressed her wishes to see such services introduced in her country.
The centre is located at Bunju Mianzini in Dar es Salaam, where she was informed about various activities taking place at the centre.
She said the Kairuki IVF Centre has been of helpful to many women who had failed to get pregnant in a normal way, so fertility services have been bringing back happiness to the women who had infertility problem.
“I have never heard of a centre like this in Malawi, but I would like to see it being established to reduce the cost of our people who have to travel to developed countries to seek such services,” she said.
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Director of Kairuki Green IVF Centre, Dr Clementina Kairuki, said she intend to organise a fundraising campaign in order to get enough money that will be used to help women with fertility problems to use this method to solve their challenges.
She said that in a short time they have been recognised internationally by obtaining quality certification from International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and that they have succeeded to get clients from Congo DRC, Comoros, the United States, UK, Sweden and various countries who already got babies and are doing well.
The Director General of Kairuki Hospital, Dr Asser Mchomvu, said they got the idea to introduce the centre after recognising that large number of people with infertility problems who were going to Kairuki Mikocheni Hospital looking for such the services.
The Kairuki IVF Lab Manager, Mr George Typhone said According to World Health Organisation (WHO), in Tanzania 30 percent of reproductive ages couples suffer from infertility adding that the centre has capacity to attend more than 800 couples annually.
