In vitro fertilization fee will be only 5.4 million

The obstetrician from Belgium announced that the cost of one in-vitro fertilization (IVF) could be significantly reduced from thousands of pounds now to only about £ 170 (equivalent to 5.4 million). Vietnamese currency) in the coming time.

Having children is always the burning desire of millions of infertile or infertile couples in the world. However, in vitro fertilization treatment (IVF) is quite expensive and not a couple, even in developed countries, and is economically viable to do it.

In the UK, the cost of one IVF job is up to nearly 5,000 pounds (equivalent to 158.9 million Vietnamese dong). According to experts, it is necessary to have high levels of carbon dioxide when feeding embryos in vitro to control acid levels. This process is maintained using carbon dioxide incubators, medical gases and air purification equipment.

The cost of a new IVF implementation of Belgium is only about 5.4 million Vietnamese dong.(Artwork: co-parentmatch.com)

Instead of using expensive equipment, the team from the Genk Institute of Reproductive Technology (Belgium) mixed cheap citric acid with carbonate acid in soda water to produce carbon dioxide.

Professor Willem Ombelet, the head of the study, stated: "We have succeeded with a technique similar to Alka-Selzer. The initial results show that our technology is at least as good as technical equivalent. Conventional IVF There have been 12 healthy babies born from our method. "

According to data submitted at the conference of the European Association of Embryology and Reproduction, the successful conception rate by cheap method is only 30%, nearly equal to the current popular IVF technique. In addition, the team estimated that the cost of implementing a new IVF method could be reduced to only 10-15% of the cost of regular IVF services in Western countries.

However, the new IVF technique still has the disadvantage of not being able to completely replace the conventional IVF method, because it is not effective in severe infertility cases, requiring more advanced treatment, in which sperm pumped directly into eggs (ICSI technique).

Still, Professor Ombelet stressed that the new IVF technique will help people in developing countries have more access to infertility treatment. The researcher said: "If you don't have children in Africa or in South America or Asia, it's a disaster, considering both economic and psychological aspects. They will kick you out of the house. need to help them ".

Even in richer Western countries, many couples are unable to pursue expensive IVF treatment, so research by Belgian scientists is of great interest.