Dubai: 40-year-old Emirati woman has become
the first to give birth to a test-tube baby through frozen-egg
technique in the country.
The baby boy, first in the UAE and Gulf region using
human oocyte was recently delivered at Al Qassimi hospital,
Sharjah, Dubai Health Authority said today.
The baby is healthy and weights 3.30 kg.
The woman had been undergoing infertility treatment for
several years at the Dubai Gynaecology and Fertility Centre.
This delivery has given a huge boost to the frozen egg
technique in the country which was previously known to have a
very poor success rate, DHA said in a statement.
"This is a huge development for us. Not only this lady,
three other women who used this technique got pregnant and
will be delivering their babies in the next few months. We
have achieved 100 per cent success rate with all four
patients," Samer Radi, Senior Embryologist and Gynaecologist,
Dubai Gynaecology and Fertility Centre, DHA said.
Until recently the frozen egg technique had a success
rate of only 2 per cent per oocyte and this dissuaded doctors
from around the world to use this form of treatment.
Instead, doctors substituted this technique with freezing
embryos which was known to have a higher success rate.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 23:42