IVF is not an Answer to Infertility

Bollywood‘s Vicky Donor might have managed to tickle some funny bones and set the cash registers ringing, but the story does echo the lives of many people around. Estimates state that around 15-20 million couples in India suffer from infertility every year. And, what makes the situation worse is the fact that one in every five males produce abnormally low amounts of sperm, leading to the growth of male infertility in India.

Though, IVF (in-vitro fertility) seems to be the ray of hope for infertile males, but its success rate is a topic of debate among the doctors.

"IVF with ICSI success rates vary according to the specifics of the individual case, the skill of the doctor performing the procedure, the overall quality of the procedure and also the quality of the eggs," says Dr. Hrishikesh D. Pai, Sr. Gynaecologist & IVF unit Head, Bloom IVF Fortis La Femme Hospital, New Delhi.

"Nearly 70-85percent of eggs injected using ICSI becomes fertilised. We call this the fertilization rate. Of late a new technology has also been devised known as Intra-Cytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection (IMSI)," adds Dr. Pai.