The President of the Association for Fertility and Reproductive Health, Prof Preye Fiebai, has warned fertility clinics to desist from transferring multiple embryos during In Vitro Fertilisation procedures, asserting that the practice increases the possibility of higher-order multiple pregnancies, contributing to maternal and neonatal complications.
He decried the proliferation of quacks and the lack of nationwide regulation of assisted reproductive technology, stating that some clinics were transferring as many as six or seven embryos during IVF as measures to prevent a failure of the procedure.
The AFRH president called for legislation regulating ARTs and made it imperative that embryo transfers be strictly limited, ideally to one or at most two, per cycle.
Fiebai further called for the reclassification of a fertility drug, clomiphene citrate, being sold freely at pharmacies and chemists and purchased by women seeking multiple pregnancies without medical supervision, to be a prescription-only drug.
The professor demanded that
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