Kolkata: Forty-three years after the Mukhopadhay subhas created a baby tube the second first and the world in a government hospital in a government hospital, Bengal and the Eastern Region is now set to get a center of excellence managed by reproductive medicine.
Treatment in the unit on the SSKM Hospital campus will be free.
This center will also be home to advanced research.
The e-tender was completed last week and the Fertility Institute of Ghosh Dastidar (GDIFR), which was carried out by former Trinamool Minister and an infertility expert, Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, was chosen to be a knowledge partner for the health care unit managed by the first government of Bengal offering infertility treatment.
The clinic and the Fertilization (IVF) research center in vitro will appear on the hospital opd block.
Gastam Khastgir fertility expert said, “This is the best gift for the father of Assistan’s reproductive therapy (ART) on his 90th birthday (celebrated on October 1).
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Mukhopadhay had to do his experimentally calmly in the NRS Hospital Lab because his research did not have state support.
“Director of the SSKM Hospital Monimoy Bandopadhyay told TII,” I don’t think there are other government-managed facilities in India like this.
Hospitals like AIIMS provide subsidized treatment, but our center will take care of everything – from IVF treatment to the birth of a baby .
Treatment IVF is very expensive.
Some couples of the weaker sections continue to suffer the children because they can not afford expensive procedures.
“IVF is the process of fertilization by manually combining an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish and then transferring the embryo to the uterus.
The SSKM director said the center would take six months for full operation.
“We hope to start the OPD in December.
GDIFR will provide the main training to doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel so that the center becomes independent within three years,” he said.
The government will pay GDIFR RS 2.35Crore for three years to “operate, maintain and manage” Center IVF.
Ghosh Dastidar said, “This is Minister of Mamata Banerjee’s minister The cost of one IVF cycle varies between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 2 Lakh in various personal fertility clinics in the city.
Because the success rate of life birth is only 30% to 40%, more cycles are needed.
“The cost is the main reason why many people cannot afford IVF.
If someone can buy six IVF cycles, the success rate will rise to 80% or 90%.
But the cost also goes up to Rs 4 Lakh.
Now, more people will be able to get care IVF, “Khastgir said.
According to estimates, a little less than 10% of all married couples suffer from infertility.
While most of them get results through drugs or artificial insemination of sperm into the uterus, about 5% of these couples need IVF.