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Pioneering nurses who were 'snubbed' for their part in world's first IVF baby will finally be remembered
08.03.2022 - 17:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Two ‘forgotten’ nurses who played a key role in pioneering the world’s first test tube baby have finally been recognised more than 40 years on.
Louise Brown was the world’s first in-vitro fertilised baby and was born at The Royal Oldham Hospital on July 25, 1978.
While the pioneers of IVF in Oldham are most widely known as scientist Robert Edwards and medic Patrick Steptoe, two overlooked female nurses also played crucial roles.
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Now a commemorative plaque has been unveiled at The Royal Oldham Hospital to honour the work of Jean Purdy and Sister Muriel Harris, who were snubbed when an original plaque was installed in Kershaw’s Cottage Hospital naming only the male doctors in 1981.
Archive letters were uncovered in 2019 which revealed their names had been omitted, with the wording of the plaque authorised by the Oldham Area Health Authority only recognising the two male doctors, and ‘supporting staff’, despite protestations from Dr Edwards.
Nurse embryologist Ms Purdy had worked with Dr Edwards for ten years, and it was she who first saw that the fertilised egg, which was to become Louise Brown, was dividing to make new cells.
She died in 1985 aged just 39, without ever seeing her contributions to the scientific breakthrough formally recognised.
Muriel Harris was the theatre superintendent both the Oldham Royal Infirmary and at Oldham and District General Hospital.
Sister Harris, who died in 2007 aged 84, worked with Dr Edwards and Mr Steptoe to establish the operating theatre facilities at both The Royal Oldham and Dr Kershaw’s Cottage Hospital, without which ‘IVF
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