‘Need to cover infertility treatment under schemes like Ayushman Bharat’

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‘Need to cover infertility treatment under schemes like Ayushman Bharat’

Wednesday, 29 July 2020 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

nLeading gynecologists and infertility specialists stressed the need to cover infertility treatment under schemes like Ayushman Bharat as among 300 million reproductive couples in India, about 10 per cent of them have problems that require IVF (vitro fertilization).

The observation came at the day-long ‘India IVF Summit’ by ‘Integrated Health and Wellbeing’ (IHW) Council on the World IVF Day and supported by Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd. (BSVL).

Announcing a commitment of Rs 10 lakhs on behalf of Bharat Serums & Vaccines towards a fund that can influence health impact in infertility, Sanjiv Navangul, Managing Director and CEO of Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd said that with my experience of working with TB and diabetes, I can say finding the social cost of infertility is important – it is at the root of many divorces, suicides, abuses, mental health problems.

“BSVL will lead a multi-stakeholder study to quantify the economic cost of infertility and the findings will be presented to the government so that they can note the ground realities and formulate right policies in this direction,” he said.

IVF works by using a combination of medicines and surgical procedures to help sperm fertilize an egg and help the fertilized egg implant in the uterus.

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