Out of over a billion people in India almost 4.2 percent suffer from infertility, creating a huge opportunity in the IVF sector. Affordability, awareness, and self regulation are important areas which need to be worked upon to streamline the sector, says Dr Abha Majumdar, Director and Head of IVF, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).
Q You were a part of the team responsible for the first IVF baby born in north India in 1991. Tell us about the experience how you made it possible at a time when reproductive treatment was at its nascent stage?
I joined Sir Ganga Ram Hospital as a junior consultant in February, 1987. Since I was interested in treating infertility, I started looking after the free infertility OPD on Thursdays. This clinic then provided only basic treatment for infertility i.e Ovulation Induction, Postcoital Test, and Intrauterine Insemination (IUI).
The birth of India’s first scientifically documented IVF baby occurred in 1986 with the efforts of Prof T C Anand Kumar and Indira Hinduja in Mumbai. Two years later, in 1989, we felt the need to take infertility treatment to a higher level in northern India. It was the foresight of Dr S K Bhandari who was the head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department that we started to develop this part of infertility management.
We made a team of three, Dr M Kochhar, a gynecologist; Dr Raj Gaur, a senior retired scientist (PHD in genetics) from AIIMS and myself. Initially, I went once to Dr Sadhna Desai’s IVF (In-Vitro-Fertilisation) centre in Mumbai to see ultrasound guided egg pickup.
Dr Gaur herself used to make culture media by mixing various salts together. Ultrasound monitoring system was developed with the help of Dr Deepak Chawla, the in-house ultrasonologist of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. We used to procure gonadotropins as well as gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH agonist) from SukhSagar chemist in Mumbai due to unavailability of same in Delhi.
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