The increase in the demand for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) clinics has enforced the health authorities in the Gulf to establish some more IVF centres.

IVF is a way of treating the infertility among women, which is on a rise in the women of Gulf. The health authorities in the Gulf are planning to open the already planned IVF clinics in the region and the next openings will be in collaboration with various private-owned hospitals.

The IVF centres to be opened in this year are at Tawam Hospital in Al Ain and Lifeline Hospital Group’s new unit Burjeel Hospital in Dubai. Also, the equity fund TVM Capital MENA and IVF clinics manager Bourn Hall International, has announced to spend $20m, in establishment of IVF centres in various parts of the region.

Michael Fakih, an IVF Doctor at Emirates Hospital, stated: “For females, there has been an increase in Polycystic Ovarian Disease, which is to do with lifestyle, eating more carbs, not exercising, obesity. Even the expat women who come and live here often end up developing PCD”.

Earlier aspect of dishonor was attached to such fertility treatments, but with time passing by, the men and women in the region have accepted the treatment in a positive manner and the couples equally support each other to access the treatment.