Couples who are planning to have a baby through the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) can visit the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai to make their dreams come true.

A new machine using the latest technique of ‘metabolomics’ has been installed at the IVF Center of the hospital to improve the existing anomalies that are associated with the IVF procedure in India. The latest machine will enable the doctors in transferring single embryos and eliminating the risk of IVF failures.

Dr Hrishikesh Pai of Lilavati Hospital said that metabolomics will reduce the possibility of multiple births and its related complications because it accurately assesses embryos and their viability and implantation potential.

The availability of metabolic profiling will enable doctors to shift from multiple embryo transfer to single embryo transfer and the treatment would be reasonably priced.

The IVF Center at the hospital will help men who have low sperm count or sperms with inferior quality by using the ‘Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm’ injection that magnifies the sperm image by 7,200 times, allowing the doctors to select the best-available sperm for a fruitful pregnancy.

The new machine will also make it unnecessary for the doctors to insert two-three embryos in the woman’s womb to ensure a successful pregnancy.

Dr Gautam Allahabadia of Rotunda Clinic said that viametrics is still in the experimental phase and not yet considered a part of the mainstream medicine.

Dr Nalini Palshetkar, who assists Dr Hrishikesh Pai informed that placing three embryos could result in multiple pregnancies, higher medical bills and maybe even NICU care for the newborns but the new machine could help cut down these issues.

Not all medical experts were confident about the new technique that would be used in IVF. Some felt that it would be more expensive, while the Lilavati doctors’ claim that this new machine would be cost-effective.