PANAJI
There is good news coming from the nascent free IVF treatment centre at the Goa Medical College (GMC) with a mother successfully delivering triplets, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has announced.
The three infants — a male weighing 2.32 kgs and two female weighing 1.77 kg and 1.525 kgs were born via Caesarean section.
Both the mother and the newborn infants are all stable, Rane said
The free IVF Centre at the GMC was launched back in August 2021 and supports couples plagued with infertility and is counted among the first public health facilities in the country to offer IVF treatment for free.
Besides IVF, the facility at GMC is also equipped with facilities for assisted reproductive technology (ART) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) services and has taken on board noted Goan gynecologist Dr Kedar Padte, himself an Alumni of GMC and an IVF exponent, as a consultant to advice on overall management of the centre.
At the GMCH's centre the treatment is free although the cost to the government averages in the Rs 5-7 lakh range and most of the equipment was procured through a Rs 2-crore CSR fund the government had raised.
