A 70-year-old woman in Uganda has given birth to twins after undergoing fertility treatment, making her one of the oldest new mothers in the world.
Safina Namukwaya – The Best Of Safina gave birth to a boy and a girl on Wednesday by Caesarean section at a hospital in the capital, Kampala, where she had been receiving in vitro fertilization treatment, she reported. Arthur Matsiko, portavoz del Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Center.
“She’s healthy. She talks. She walks if they tell her to walk around the hospital,” Matsiko said Friday, referring to Namukwaya, who had a daughter in the same center in 2020 after in vitro fertilization treatment.
Namukwaya is the oldest woman to have given birth in the hospital, whose owner is a prominent gynecologist in the eastern region of Africa. The hospital specializes in helping couples who have problems having children.
Advances in research have improved the success rates of IVF treatments. A 73-year-old woman from southern India gave birth to twin girls in 2019 after receiving in vitro fertilization treatment, the press reported.