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Kenya's first test tube babies were born in May 2006, thanks to Dr Joshua Noreh, an obstetrician and gynaecologist. That was 28 years after the birth of the world's first test tube baby - Louise Brown - in Oldham, United Kingdom.
The two girls were born at Avenue Hospital in Parklands, Nairobi and are now teenagers after celebrating their 16th birthday his May.
One of the new fathers whose wife had struggled for a baby since 1996 told Dr Noreh: "I am ready to give you anything you ask for," the BBC reported at the time.
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