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A second IVF baby has been delivered from Mulago Hospital
In vitro fertilisation (IVF), an assisted reproductive technology technique used to treat infertility, resulted in the successful delivery of their second child at Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital. Salim Malinga and Sayeed Rukusana are the children's parents. Speaking to journalists at a press conference, Dr. The facility, which officially opened in 2018, only got to start its IVF program in August of last year, according to Acting Hospital Administrator Sam Ononge. So far, eleven mothers have become pregnant using this method. Of these, two have been successful, with the previous one having delivered earlier on 31 May 2025.
The facility has, since last year, run twenty-eight IVF cycles, but medics explain that only eighteen were able to complete their cycle, which involves egg retrieval, preparation treatments, scans and transfer of embryos to the womb.
Dr David Nsibambi, who heads the fertility unit of the hospital, explains that of these, eleven got pregnant, but four of these pregnancies were not viable.
The couple is praised by the doctors. The doctor notes that apart from IVF, the hospital is seeing a high and increasing number of couples seeking other fertility treatments, saying that each week, they receive an average of seventy-eight patients with fertility problems.
In the meantime, though this service has been around for a long time in the country, many people haven't been able to afford it because it can cost up to fifty million shillings, depending on where you get it. According to Ononge, the government-run hospital has heavily subsidized this service to make it available to more people with infertility issues. According to him, their charges range between fourteen to fifteen million shillings, depending on what one needs to conceive.
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