Bringing IVF to the streets

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By Sola Ogundipe

Two of a kind—young, brilliant and ambitious, Drs. Adeleke Daramola and Charles Oluwabukunmi Kolade are bonded by a common passion.

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Dr Kolade(L) with Dr  Daramola

As the Medical/Clinical Director and Gynaecologist/Chief Operating Officer, Androcare Fertility Centre, Lagos, respectively, Daramola and Kolade have special interest in fertility treatment. They assist couples challenged by infertility to have their own babies. They also teach other doctors and healthcare providers how to make babies in the laboratory.

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Their  common agenda  is to bring IVF to the streets. Six years ago, they started off Androcare as the first and only fertility centre in Akowonjo, a Lagos suburb, offering tests based on achieving the cause of the infertility for couples by running advanced diagnostic tests.

“ We are bringing IVF to the streets,” Daramola remarked during an encounter. “Androcare is a centre for those on the…



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