Health Ministry to increase the quota for IVF

Russian Ministry of Health is planning to triple the quota for IVF procedure. Such an increase is planned to introduce in 2011.

As the director of a ministerial department of pediatric care and obstetrics services Valentina Shirokova, quota for IVF   - in vitro fertilization   -   They grow almost threefold. This statement was made by it to the All-Russian Scientific Forum "Mother and Child".

According to Valentina Shirokova, 2011 Russian Ministry of Health   intends to allocate about nine thousand quotas for IVF . They will be referred for treatment suffering infertile women   by in vitro fertilization . For comparison - in 2009 and 2010 for this purpose the Ministry of Health officials have been allocated more than three thousand quotas. The increase in their numbers is scheduled for further development of reproductive technologies and bringing them to the level of European countries.

In France alone, annually more than 35 thousand IVF , With a population of 60 million people. In Russia, where the number of population is much higher, it produced 25 thousand IVF in year. While the need for such operations is growing. Each year, at least six million Russian couples and women with infertility in need of state support for in vitro fertilization .

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