While patients from all over the world continue
to visit India for IVF treatment, especially surrogacy, the Indian government
has unfortunately made it difficult for Indian clinics to deliver IVF services.
It is even worse because the ICMR has refused to authorize embryo importation
into the country using the excuse that the government is yet to authorize the
right IVF clinics to import embryos. This is despite the fact that embryo importation
is a good foreign exchange earner.
Moreover, several months down the line, ICMR is
yet to respond to concerns from the IVF sector stakeholders and the inspection
and registration of IVF clinics is yet to begin. In the meantime though,
several patients who had hoped to get babies through surrogacy in India have
seen their dreams squashed and have opted for Shipping frozen embryos to more liberalized countries such as
Thailand.
Therefore, while it is true that the Indian
medical sector is among the very best in the world and continues to offer
medical services at a fraction of the cost of hospitals in the West, bureaucratic
government procedures could see a decline in Indian IVF tourism as well as loss
in foreign exchange.
While it is important for the government to
regulate the health sector, it is disheartening for the same government to put
procedures that only hurt the thousands of patients waiting
anxiously to have their children and shower them with love.
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