Sunday, Aug 07, 2016

Dubai: The Dubai Gynaecology and Fertility Centre (DGFC) has come up with a special embryo glue to reduce chances of miscarriages in woman who suffer from this tendency and give them a better chance of being a mother, officials from the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) announced today.

Hana Tahwara, director of the centre, said: “The embryo glue is a new embryo transfer medium, which is used in the final step of In Vitro Fertility (IVF) treatment to support the embryo implantation process. It helps embryos to stick to the endometrium and has proven to drastically reduce the risk of miscarriages,” said Tahwara.

She added that the centre receives 2,700 cases annually from the UAE and abroad and has had 4,000 successful live births after treating couples with infertility problems.

Tahwara said the centre got the accreditation after undergoing a series of evaluations on 29 criteria by a group of specialists from the Canadian authority. She added that the evaluations focused on specialisation as well as technical and medical equipment of the centre and added that the centre increased its lab sample policies from 19 to 76 policies, according to international standards. This allows for more accurate and safe fertility procedures.

Humaid Al Qutami, chairman of the board and director-general of DHA, who visited the centre, said the tangible success of DGFC positively reflects the trust that patients have in the centre.

Tahwara also pointed out that the centre provided services such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) operations, intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and freezing eggs, to name a few. She said that the centre has progressed significantly in the last few years as it was able to raise the rate of successful fertility operations to 57 per cent. This is higher than the international rate of 40 to 50 per cent. It was also able to increase the rate of successful microscopic insemination operations to 51 per cent and IVF to 63 per cent. The preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) cases during 2015 totalled 169 and had a success rate of 57 per cent.

Staff Report

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