Al-Yamamah hospital.

A Saudi citizen gave birth to her first child after being treated for IVF (IVF) in the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques unit for fertilization and infertility treatment at Al Yamama Hospital for Women, Childbirth and Children in Riyadh as the first patient treated in this way since she was admitted to the unit in the beginning of the last AH 1425 AH. The head of the unit, Professor Dr. Sulaiman bin Saleh Al-Najashi, explained that the Saudi patient is 25 years old, and the unit reviewed on 24/7/1421 AH, since its inception and was suffering from an initial sterility that lasted about two years and started treatment by stimulants through four attempts But the pregnancy did not take place.

He added: After the unit started treatment with IVF at the beginning of the year 1425 AH, the patient took her opportunity of treatment in this way, and she became pregnant from the first attempt and continued her pregnancy during the nine months in the outpatient clinics, and gave birth on Sunday 12/12/5241 AH with her first child through a cesarean section and was weighing The baby is 3 kilos and the mother and her baby are healthy.

Dr. Al-Najashi stated that the outpatient clinics have reviewed more than 1108 patients since their work began on 12/7/1421 AH through 3226 visits, and more than 515 patients were treated through 4497 ​​treatment visits.

And about the stages of treating infertility with unity between Dr. Al-Najashi that it passes through three stages, the first of which is the use of stimulants and includes the use of tablets or needles or both and the second includes the use of stimulants and an artificial injection is added to it which is washing the sperm of the husband and separating the active sperm and ing it into the uterus after using stimulants at the time of descent The two eggs: the two stages started with work from the beginning of work in the unit, and the third and final stage, which is treatment for IVF (IVF), where work began at the beginning of the year 1425 AH, and more than 70 cases have been treated so far and there are many patients on waiting lists for treatment this way.

He pointed out that about 180 patients have been pregnant since the beginning of the unit, and this gives a rate of 35%.

It is noteworthy that the unit came with a royal honor from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques - may God protect him - donated about two million riyals to open the fertilization and infertility treatment unit.