SOLAPUR, Sept 23: There is hope in store for married couples who have been unable to ralise their long cherished desire for progeny due to infertitliy. They can opt for the test tube method, now available in the city itself.In order to cope with the demands of such processes, Dr. Sunita Kasliwal made all out efforts to introduce such a centre at her hospital, eqipped with all modern machines required in this process.
After three years' training stint at Jaipur, Mumbai and other cities, Dr. Sunita is a specialist in gynaecological endoscopic surgery, ultrasonography and tubal microsurgery, has started the assisted reproduction centre.
Giving detailed information about fertility through test tube at a press conference, Dr. Kasliwal said that the treatment of infertility has developed now due to the modern techniques and advanced scientific knowledge bringing into clinical practice therapies, modalities and procedures. ``Earlier, these facilities were in big cities like Mumbai, Pune. But we have provided all the related facilities under one roof to produce the test tube baby,'' she said.
She said that this was a natural pregnancy but people had perceived it in a wrong way due to lack of awareness about the process. ``We inject a drug to the lady to multiply her eggs and later on these eggs are taken out after sonography for union with the semen of the husband. And because it grows in the time of two to 5 days, the baby is kept in the mother's uterus,'' she said. And raised the question that where a mother gave birth to a child and delivered it in the natural process, has could it be called unnatural.
Even if after the test tube process, one doesn't get pregnant, than it also it did not mean that all ways were blocked for reproduction, she said. After tracing out the defects in the husband, the results could still be obtained, she claimed.
The centre conducts sophisticated in vitro fertilisation and has other facilities including sperm bank, laminar air flow units with help filters and ultravoilet lights with computarised cryopreservation equipment for sperm and embryo freezing.
Dr. Khasliwal said that even a woman who had undergone the family planning operation but wanted to get pregnant, she could get her desire fulfilled through microsurgery.
She also said that the centre had an artificial semen bank by which samples of donors were kept frozen. By this system a woman, who's husband was infertile could produce a child through pregnancy with the donated semen.
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