Test Tube Babies - Novel Solution For Infertility

Test Tube Babies - Novel Solution For Infertility

All scientific Discoveries, inventions and achievements invariably lead to the betterment of human race. Test tube baby, a phenomenon of the 20th century, is also an invention of the human intellect. There are thousands of couples of in the world who are not blessed with a child. Medical researchers, after protracted attempts of many decades, have finally arrived at a solution called – test tube baby.  According to Dr.Nirmala Sadasivam, 1 in 5 couples encounter difficulty in conceiving a child. WHO has declared that 15% of the world population is facing infertility.

 GFRC is an extremely distinguished medical centre for Infertility with all facilities under one roof. It has come a long way since its inception as a pioneering institute in ERODE, Tamil Nadu since 1996. It has taken giant steps to become a center of excellence in all facets of infertility and IVF treatment options, which are offered at affordable cost for the public. This center has been a leader in Blastocyst Culture, an extended embryo Culture Technology and other novel Male Infertilitytreatment modalities like Surgical Sperm Retrievals - TESA, MESA, PESA, TESE, etc., with ICSI facility and genetic studies too. This research center is a unit of Maaruthi Medical Center and Hospitals, which is a well known 300 bed corporate hospital situated in the centre of Erode city.

The success story of GFRC & MMCH in infertility treatment is largely due to the support of an extremely dedicated and experienced IVF team led by Dr.Nirmala Sadasivam, who has invaluable experience due to trainings she had at various world class institutes overseas, since 1991, and has pioneered in Blastocyst Culture technique since 1998. She was recognized by National Academy of Medical science and offered MNAMS - membership. With the vast knowledge and experience in Blastocyst culture technique she has utilized the data of more than 4000 infertile couples treated in her centre, she could do PhD in the same specialty. This institution was endorsed in its nascent stage at the National "Art" Registry of India, and is now a prestigious senior member of ISAR, India. Another feather in their cap is the inclusion of the centre as one among the esteem early participants at ASPIRE - Asia Pacific Initiation of Reproductive Endocrinology, in their academic events. This institute is accredited to ICMR through the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction. 
 

Dr.Nirmala Sadasivam

Dr.Nirmala Sadasivam received training in National University Hospital of Singapore which maintains a high degree of reputation and experience in implementing ART techniques. 

The world level recognition for this centre came largely due to the "Medical Miracle" where 64 year old Mrs. Pappathi Subramaniam gave birth to a healthy male baby which was flashed in all Medias worldwide. This news has gained importance and it is occupying a page in BBC web site till today. This enduring success has a strong base of stupendous extended embryo culture technology (Blastocyst Technology) which conquered all obstacles of implantation in this old woman. This scientific development was also noted in the international medical circles on account of wide coverage given by the BBC. After that many women have delivered of test tube babies after their fifties, safely with the most modern technology called “BLASTOCYST CULTURE”.

The eldest parents of universe Mr. Subramaniam (74 yrs) & Mrs. Pappathy (64 yrs)

The first test tube baby in the district of Erode was born in this hospital in 1997. In the initial stage, only three incubators were functional, now, in 2013, the numbers of incubators were increased to twelve. This has facilitated extensive embryological work and research with complete infertility management under one roof. The latest addition to the IVF lab is called K-System-G185, the most modern device with trigas facility having the capacity of serving more number of couples (40) every day.  As many as 4800 ART cycles have been carried out in this hospital so far and close to 2700 live births have happened as a result of IVF treatment (Test Tube baby).

By following the latest strategy of Vaginal Culture, a 59 year old woman got conceived in March 2013, and delivered on 28th November in MMCH, which was the first of its kind in INDIA. This is the simplest and the most economical method of doing test tube babies without using modern incubators, thereby avoiding high expenditures.

According to the doctor, infertility in women is caused by lifestyle changes which are of primary importance. Besides, air pollution and environmental degradation also contribute to a high level. Dr. Nirmala is of the opinion that residues from the river also produce a devastating effect on the health of women folks in villages and rural areas which play havoc in the issue of child-bearing capability of women. In western countries and developed nations, higher level officials from health department, senior doctors, scientist, researchers and industrialists assemble periodically and discuss about the developments and their influence in society. They take decisions after deep deliberations – what to be done and what not. In India too, such situations should begin in order to thrash out problems affecting the people. Doctor feels that certain chemicals present in the industrial effluents cause lots of negative influence on the health of the people which is a matter of concern. Chemicals viz., sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and some other chemical compounds which are toxic in nature and other acidic constituents erode the health and normal welfare of the people. She says, this trend should be immediately arrested and checked in time in the interest of the society. 

As per doctor, obesity is the vital reason for Infertility. Extra fat have to be reduced by exercises at home or gym or by paramedical exercises like yoga, walking, strolling, running, jumping, etc. Physical workouts play a positive role in reducing chances of contracting diabetes as well as obesity. If either of the parents suffers from diabetes, there is a possibility of the children too contracting diabetes as a hereditary factor. Doctor feels, life cycle modifications will improve the health of obese - infertility patients.  She advises that women should marry before reaching 25 and should deliver the first child before 30. If there is delay in this process, there is a higher probability of birth defects in the children born. 

This hospital has started many activities and many campaigns to pass on the message of conquering infertility and safe motherhood to the people of Erode district. They conduct health education programs often to apprise the people of do’s and don'ts with respect to health profile. They conduct general medical camps and infertility camps and awareness programs, conferences and classes besides treatment. The hospital gives utmost importance to educate the public about various aspects of infertility management. 

Economically-deprived classes of people are treated here with nil fees. In this medical centre, 30% of the OP patients and IVF patients are treated free of cost as a point of corporate social responsibility for the past 18 years. This gesture on the part of the hospital speaks volumes of their philanthropic motivation and social commitment.  

As per Dr. Nirmala, patients from many places viz., USA, California, Italy, West Germany, Colombo, France, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia have visited this hospital and got their infertility problems solved with live births. NRIs also come to this hospital for treatment regularly. She feels, her Ph. D., which was obtained based on Blastocyst culture, is helping the people in a magnificent way to offer very reasonable success opportunity, and helping them economically by avoiding multiple attempts without success.

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