Khoula Hospital Fertility Center announces the birth of first baby girl since its opening
Muscat: The Fertility Centre at Al Wattayah Gynecology and Obstetrics Complex – the first government centre specialised in fertility in the Sultanate of Oman – announced the birth of the first baby girl to a 37-year-old mother after a 10-year journey of not having children.
Dr. Rahma bint Salem Al-Ghabshi, Head of the Fertility Center, told the Oman News Agency: This case was one of the first cases to undergo fertility operations with the opening of the center. The mother had been following up for a long time in the delayed pregnancy clinic and had taken many treatments, stimulants, and artificial insemination. She also had diabetes and an underactive thyroid gland.
She added that after continuous follow-up and intensive care from the doctors in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Khawla Maternity Hospital, the pregnancy and childbirth journey began, which was by caesarean section due to the pregnancy conditions, and she gave birth to a baby girl weighing 2.56 kilograms and in good health, praise be to God. She pointed out that the center receives more than 60 cases weekly, as the male clinic receives more than 60 cases weekly, and the center performs between 15 and 20 fertilization operations every week.
She stressed the center’s endeavor to cooperate with international centers specialized in the field of fertility and to obtain academic recognition to be a specialized center for training female fellowship doctors in the field of fertility, pointing to the center’s role in training female trainee doctors from the Oman Medical Specialty Board. The Fertility Center at Al Wattayah Gynecology and Obstetrics Complex, affiliated with the General Directorate of Khawla Hospital, which was opened in February of this year, represents a glimmer of hope and a journey towards the desired motherhood and fatherhood to help couples overcome the problems of pregnancy and childbirth.
The center includes a medical team with extensive experience in the field of fertility, consisting of infertility and assisted conception consultants, embryology technicians and specialists, and is equipped with the latest laboratory technology to provide free medical care services with high quality.
IVF is used in cases of blocked fallopian tubes, male infertility, or women with ovulation disorders or infertility of unknown cause, with other procedures and treatments failing. IVF operations are performed according to internationally recognized conditions, most notably that the mother’s age does not exceed 42 years when registering for treatment, with no healthy child in the current marriage, and that the woman’s body mass index does not exceed 35, which will have a positive impact on the success of the treatment. It will include ages 43 and 44 with a good ovarian reserve that is confirmed with the results of the tests. The mother’s age is the main factor controlling the chances of success of IVF. The older the woman gets, the lower the success rates.
The success rate of IVF at the age of forty is very low compared to the success rate of IVF at the age of thirty or twenty. The center provides fertility preservation services by preserving reproductive cells such as eggs and sperm to benefit groups suffering from diseases and disorders that affect their fertility, such as cancer patients, before starting treatment that affects fertility. The center receives cases referred from the obstetrics and gynecology departments of all government hospitals and health complexes in all governorates, from urology clinics treating male infertility, from reproductive glands clinics at the Royal Hospital and Al Wattayah Complex, from endocrinology clinics, and from oncology centers for fertility preservation.
