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The Bridge Clinic was set up in 1999 in collaboration with a team of consultants from Kings College Hospital with the sole objective of providing Nigerians with the same standard of fertility services available to them in the United Kingdom. To assure the fulfillment of this obligation and reproducibility of these results, we decided to reproduce the infrastructure internationally as well as adhere to the codes of conduct of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
Initially our treatment programs were managed by the team from the United Kingdom who travelled to Nigeria to treat our clients in batches while concomitantly training some staff members at the prestigious Kings College Hospital. By April 2001, a fully trained Nigerian team was in place to carry out the responsibilities of anchoring treatment. Since then our program has been carried out by them with the team from Kings College Hospital visiting regularly to assure the quality of treatment we provide while transferring knowledge of new and emerging technological advances in assisted conception technology. The team from Kings College Hospital also audits the activities of the clinic on a regular basis.
In spite of our appreciation of the benefits of hands-on training, we have recognized the need for and kept our team of Fertility specialists and Embryologists abreast with this rapidly advancing healthcare field. We have trained 3 Embryologist in the University of Leeds who have been awarded with a Master of Science degree in Clinical Embryology and our Fertility specialists are exposed to different fora for discussion and exchange of new clinical and scientific ideas in the field of Reproductive Medicine with their peers internationally.
In recognition of the pertinent need to assure the quality of services we provide to our clients, we implemented a Quality Management System following the award of the Quality Management Certificate by TUV Austria in 2004; ahead of most clinics in the United Kingdom. By constantly adhering to these standards we have kept our success rates at par with fertility clinics ranked within the top 10% in the United Kingdom.
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