| " I feel
like a number on a file at my doctor's office. I
understand he has such a huge practice but the only time
I really get to see him and talk to him is at a
consultation visit or during transfer. Retrieval is done
by another ghost doctor that I have never met, I only
know her name, she does procedure during anaesthesia so
I don't even see her." Do you find yourself in this
situation ? Would you like more personalised attention
and better care ?
We provide
comprehensive IVF services , all under one roof, so patients
don't need to shuttle from clinic to lab to the scan center.
Our practise is restricted to treating infertile patients
exclusively, and we were rated amongst India's
top 5 infertility clinics in a survey carried out
by Outlook magazine in June 2002, which interviewed over
700 doctors all over India for their opinion. We were
voted as the best IVF clinic as regards value for money.
Since we specialise in providing IVF treatment , we offer
our patients the very best medical care - at affordable
prices.
If you have done IVF at another clinic, have you got upset
that you have to met a different doctor every time? Are
you tired of talking to the doctor's assistants every
time ?Are you forced to talk to a number of different
nurses who seem clueless ? Are you having trouble getting
the explanations you need ? Do you have to run around
from the IVF clinic, to a lab for your blood tests, to
an ultrasound center for your scans, so that you seem
to be on the move all day long ? Are you fed up waiting
for ever and ever to talk to the doctor or to get your
blood test results ? At Malpani Infertility Clinic, all
the treatment ( including the consultation, all the ultrasound
scans, egg collection and embryo transfers are done personally
by either Dr. Anjali
Malpani and Dr. Aniruddha Malpani). The buck stops
with us - and we don't delegate any part of your delicate
and critical IVF treatment to anyone else !
The reason we are so good at what we do is that we do
nothing else ! Our practise is restricted to IVF treatment,
and after doing this exclusively for the last 15 years,
we are very good at it. Since we practise in only one
place , we are always available and accessible to you,
to answer your questions and fine-tune your treatment.
We are very cost effective, because we provide comprehensive
services at a fixed price. The advantage of a fixed
- charge treatment package is that you don't have to
pay extra for every little thing. Unlike US clinics,
we don't charge extra for consultations, blood tests
and scans once we start an IVF treatment cycle. Some
IVF clinics can be very creative in their billing practices
- and this can add up to a pretty penny you did not
budget for !
Our pregnancy rates are very high, because we can transfer
more embryos in difficult patients ( unlike clinics
in UK and Australia, where the number of embryos which
can be transferred is limited by law). While transferring
more embryos does increase the risk of high-order multiple
pregnancies, this risk is negligible in difficult patients
( for example, the older women or women with previous
failed IVF cycles). In our clinic, we customise the
number of embryos we transfer for each patient we treat,
rather than just blindly follow a guideline ( which
has been laid down for the general population, without
considering each individual's specific problem).
Our equipment is state of the art and is sourced from
all over the world. For example, our CO2 incubators
are Nuaire incubators from USA; our stereozoom and inverted
microscopes are from Olympus, Japan, and our ultrasound
scanner is from Aloka, Japan. We use IVF catheters from
Rocket of London, UK; ICSI pipettes from Cook, Australia;
the Saturn laser unit for laser assisted hatching and
embryo biopsy from Research Instruments, UK ; IVF culture
medium from Vitrolife, Scandinavia; and IVF disposables
from Becton Dickinson, USA. Our IVF lab complies with
international
standards and guidelines.
You can take a guided tour
of the clinic online !
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Coming to Bombay (Mumbai) for IVF is extremely easy.
Bombay (Mumbai) is a major metropolis, and has
its own international airport. You can book your
tickets
online, and find the best deals by asking Indian travel
agents in your city. Another option is to check out
www.bootsnall.com.
A return air ticket to India from the US costs about
US $ 1000- 1500. Your husband can accompany you, or
you can hand-carry his frozen sperm in a dry shipper
( which you will need to borrow from your local infertility
clinic) or in a dry-ice
box packed with dry ice. The clinic is in the heart
of south Bombay, and is an hour's ride away from
the airport. IVF treatment is done on a day-care basis,
so you do not need hospitalisation at all. There are
many hotels
nearby and we can help you arrange accommodation in
close proximity to our clinic. You only need to make
4 - 6 visits to the clinic during the entire cycle,
and after the embryo transfer, you can fly back home.
Over half our patients come to us from out of Bombay;
and a quarter of all our patients come from overseas,
so we are very experienced in meeting your special needs.
To make the process as easy as possible for you, we
have developed protocols that allow you to interact
easily with us by email. You can have all your preliminary
testing and care performed by your own doctor in your
own town. This means that with well-planned scheduling,
you only need to spend about 10 to 20 days at our clinic
to complete an IVF cycle of treatment.
Traveling to do IVF may make it less stressful for
you. Getting prepared for the cycle is more stressful
(things to do to get ready for the trip, etc.), but
the cycle itself may be less stressful. You can do a
lot of sightseeing and you may obsess less about the
cycle that way than you would have if you were home
and working. Also, you have fewer responsibilities to
worry about and can concentrate on your cycle.
Over the last 13 years, we have treated patients
from all over the world - USA, UK, Australia, Middle
East , Kenya, Nigeria and Singapore. Our patients have
been surprised and pleased at the convenience that our
system offers them . In fact, many feel that it is easier
to be treated at Malpani Infertility Clinic, than to
take treatment in their own home city . In addition,
taking off 10 to 14 days in a relaxed setting, where
you can bond with your partner and with us can only
help promote an optimal outcome. You can also fly down
to see the Taj Mahal, or get an ayurvedic massage in
Kerala to melt your stress away.
A complete IVF cycle at our clinic
costs only US $ 3000 - and this is all-inclusive of
all medical procedures, including lab tests, scans,
egg pickup and embryo transfer. The approximate total
costs of all the medicines used for superovulation for
one complete cycle is about US $ 800 more. A complete
cycle of IVF with ICSI costs US $ 3500. The total costs
of all the medicines used for superovulation for one
complete cycle is about US $ 800 more. A complete cycle
of PGD costs US $ 5500. The approximate total costs
of all the medicines used for superovulation for one
complete cycle is about US $ 800 more. . A complete
cycle of donor egg IVF costs US $
6500 only
( including payment for the egg donor). Embryo adoption
costs US $ 4500 only.
We provide a package deal which includes ALL costs,
rather than add on costs for individual services ( such
as consultations, scans, blood tests and so on) which
many other clinics do ! This helps patients to know
what their TOTAL cost will be upfront. We have no hidden
expenses.
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These costs include:
- all ultrasound scanning
- blood tests, if any
- in-hospital costs (for the oocyte collection)
- anaesthetic fees (for the oocyte collection)
- fees for the Infertility Specialist (for all consultations
and procedures, including the oocyte retrieval and
embryo transfer)
- all IVF laboratory costs during the IVF treatment
cycle (including the oocyte retrieval, sperm preparation,
embryo culture and embryo transfer).
The cost of freezing supernumerary embryos ( if any)
and storing them for 1 year is US $ 1000.
This is why we attract patients from all over the world
! We also offer a money-back
(risk sharing program) for selected patients who would
prefer this option to minimise their financial risk.
Why is IVF so much less expensive in India as compared
to the US, even though we use exactly the same technology
and the same equipment and culture medium as labs in the
US do? The answer is simple -- Indian doctors charge much
less than doctors in the US -- and this is why IVF treatment
is such a bargain in our clinic. Thus, the cost for a
consultation at our clinic is only Rs 1000 ( US $ 20) -
a fraction of what doctors in the West charge ! Indian
doctors, like Indian computer professionals , have proven
they are as good as anyone in the world, but because India
is still a developing country, they charge much less than
their colleagues in the West. There is also much less
administrative paperwork, keeping overheads low, allowing
us to offer cost-effective services to our patients.
The medicines used for superovulation are also much
less expensive in India. They are manufactured by the
same multinational companies, but one vial of 75 IU
of HMG ( Menogon) in India costs only US $ 15 approximately
- as compared to about US $ 50 in the US, which means
you save about US $ 1000 upfront on just the cost of
the medications ! Why do you want to subsidise pricey
US pharmacists and drug companies ?
We offer comprehensive services, in a custom built 2500
square foot facility on the 5th floor of a multi-storey
building.
These include:
- Consultation
- Diagnostic testing
- Operative laparoscopy
- Operative hysteroscopy
- Sperm banking
- Embryo cryopreservation
- IVF, including
assisted hatching and blastocyst transfer
- Egg and
embryo donation
- ICSI, including
PESA and TESA
- PGD - preimplantation
genetic diagnosis for genetic disorders
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