Post date: Jan 28, 2012 1:32:36 PM
Fourteen test tube babies are born using the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure to seven childless mothers in northern India. The doctors carried out the Caesareans creating a world record of the healthiest twins born within 12 hours.
BULANDSHAHR, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (JANUARY 27, 2012) (ANI) - Fourteen test tube babies were born using the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure to seven childless mothers in Bulandshahr of India's northern Uttar Pradesh state. The doctors carried out the Caesareans creating a world record of the healthiest twins born within 12 hours.
The operation was performed in Tevatia hospital and fertility centre on Thursday (January 26), where the doctors started the surgeries at 6am and continued till 6.30pm in the evening.
Speaking about the incredible feat, Embryologist, Doctor Aakash Sharma, said on Friday (January 27), that he was pleased to bring happiness to so many childless mothers and all the babies born were absolutely healthy and stable.
"This is a world record which we have achieved. Also, all the 14 babies born are totally healthy and fine," Sharma said.
Sharma also added that it was an achievement that such a landmark operation was carried out in a small city like Bulandshahr.
Meanwhile, sounding elated, Rajkumari, a woman who was not able to conceive since eight years of her marriage, said that it was still an unbelievable realization for her that she was a mother of two children now.
"I am married for eight years; I consulted a lot of doctors but to no avail. Now I am very pleased with the Tevatia hospital and its doctors. I have now two babies, one girl and one boy. I had never imagined that I would one day be the mother of two children," said Rajkumari.
IVF is a fertilisation process that manually combines an egg and a sperm outside the body. It is a significant operation in infertility when other ways of assisted reproductive technology do not succeed. The first successful birth of a "test tube baby", Louise Brown, occurred in 1978. Robert G. Edwards, the physiologist who developed the treatment, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010.