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Chris Rotert
Wisconsin Fertility Institute
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Four babies born as a result of IVF are a first in Haiti
MIDDLETON —Doctors from the Wisconsin Fertility Institute proudly announce the birth of four babies thanks to advanced reproductive services offered by Dr. David Olive and Dr. Wael Abdel Megid of Wisconsin Fertility Institute. The four babies are the first ever born in Haiti through the help of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
The doctors traveled to Haiti earlier this year as volunteer medical professionals with Family Health Ministries — a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping Haitian communities build and sustain healthy families. Dr. Olive is a nationally recognized reproductive expert and founding physician with Wisconsin Fertility Institute. Dr. Megid is the lab director at Wisconsin Fertility Institute. The four babies are the result of IVF made possible thanks to a professional collaboration with the CHITAI Fertility Center in Haiti.
“I am excited to have helped these Haitian families realize their dreams,” said Dr. Olive. “Wisconsin Fertility Institute is extremely proud of its long-standing relationship with Family Health Ministries to help provide quality medical care to people throughout Haiti. As Haiti continues to work to rebuild its country, it is enormously gratifying to help build new families.”
Dr. Olive’s medical mission was just the latest in many trips to Haiti. He and his wife Dr. Elizabeth Pritts, also of the Wisconsin Fertility Institute, have both worked with Family Health Ministries for approximately six years and have made more than a dozen trips to the Caribbean country to provide medical care. Dr. Pritts was part of a medical mission to Haiti just two weeks after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. During that trip, Dr. Pritts helped deliver urgently needed medical supplies and treated injured earthquake victims at a Family Health Ministries clinic in the capitol of Port Au Prince. Dr. Olive went six weeks after the earthquake, bringing more supplies and treating many victims still in need of medical care.
Drs. Olive and Pritts have two adopted daughters from Haiti. In addition to their medical missions there, they also sponsor two high school students and a college student and help support an orphanage.
Drs. Olive and Pritts are board-certified physicians in the practices of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Advanced Gynecologic Surgery. The Wisconsin Fertility Institute is dedicated to delivering high quality care in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and complex and advanced gynecology. It is the largest infertility center in Wisconsin and has helped to create more babies than any other facility in Wisconsin.
