At the SAT Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, the oldest
tertiary-level maternal and child care hospital in the State, on Friday,
there was a sense of jubilation in the air.
The hospital achieved a rare milestone when the first babies to be
conceived through advanced Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in a
public sector hospital in the State were born here in the
early hours of Friday Nov 22,2013
early hours of Friday Nov 22,2013
The twins — a boy and a girl — born to Nikhila and Sureshkumar of
Uchakkada, Parassala, here with the help of in-vitro fertilisation
(IVF), were hale and hearty and weighed 2 kg each, Sheila Balakrishnan,
who heads the Fertility Centre at the hospital, said.
Advanced fertility treatment utilising ART had so far been available
only in private sector hospitals in the State where the cost of various
procedures could be anything upward Rs.2.5 lakh
SAT Hospital became the first public sector hospital in the State to
offer similar facilities, when in August last, a fertility centre with
all modern equipment, clean room, and laboratory facilities were opened
here as one of the projects under the Rs.120-crore Prime Minister’s
Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).
The first batch of nine women underwent IVF procedures in April 2013.Though
three women conceived, only two pregnancies were carried to term, the
first of which was delivered on Friday Nov 22,2013
So far, 34 women had undergone IVF procedures here, and there had been
six viable pregnancies. Even in the best centres in the world, the
success rate for IVF was only about 25-30 %
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