YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has made medical history in Central Africa with the birth of Tommy, the region`s first test-tube baby. Doctors said that Tommy, the son of a dentist and a pharmacist who had been trying to have a child for eight years, was born on Tuesday. He weighed in a 3.42 kg (7.5 pounds). A team of four Cameroonian doctors and two biologists conducted the project. Tommy was the baby`s nickname. "Five other babies are expected in the coming months," team member Dr Ernestine Gwett Bell told reporters afterwards. The cost of a test-tube baby, one million to 1.5 million CFA francs ($1,600 and $2,400), is high for what is essentially a poor country. Gwett Bell said that the cost further afield in France or South Africa was higher. "We are very much in demand. Sterility in our society is a real concern for people," she added.