Dr. D'Pankar Banerji (MS)

Consulting Gynecologist and Infertility specialist

Fertility treatment with us is cheaper. We offer one cycle of test tube baby (IVF) treatment, inclusive of drugs and disposables, at Rs. 60,000 (if female partner is less than 30 yrs.) and Rs. 40,000 (if female partner is less than 30 yrs and willing to share her eggs to the needy recipients that are for egg donation).

The success rate is around 60-65 % in that age group .Otherwise the treatment cost is Rs. 70000 for conventional IVF and Rs. 80000 for ICSI and overall success rate is 39.2 % (20-38 age group, 2006 data) IVF treatment does not require any hospital stay or bed rest and any sort of surgery. The visits to us are also not very frequent. Maximum stay for any couple from out side is 10 days.

IVF should be done earliest for those couple where the fallopian tubes are blocked and/or absent. Husband with poor sperm count, if not helped by 2/3 cycles of IUI (Intra-uterine inseminations), should go for IVF .It is very important to remember that: more the age of the female partner, more will be the failure.

Hence if you are not successful with basic treatments, be hurry .Always remember the treatment of infertility should be based on the reasons not on assumptions. Most of the time we see that the same treatments are repeated which is waste of money and precious time.