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1 The Persistent and Determined Personality Dr. Shrutika Thakkar is an Obstetrician-Gynaecologist and Founder Director of MedAnsh Multispeciality Hospital. She has a keen interest in fertility and endoscopic surgery. She has completed her Master’s degree in OBGY from the famous Grant medical college, and Sir J.J. hospital, Mumbai. Shrutika has completed fellowship programs in fertility and endoscopic surgery from Homerton, U.K as well as Kiel University, Germany. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in K.E.M. Hospital, imparting education to undergraduate and postgraduate students of OBGYN. With numerous publications in reputed books and journals, she is a thorough academician. She has been invited as a faculty at various conferences and has many presentations to her credit. Throughout her career spanning more than a decade, she has helped numerous couples achieve their dream of parenthood. Mulund – The Fertility Centre MedAnsh Multispeciality Hospital’s fertility clinic provides customized ART treatment at affordable prices in a comfortable atmosphere. It offers all the newest reproductive techniques, including IVF, ICSI, laser assisted hatching, embryo freezing, egg donation, PGD, embryo biopsy, and blastocyst transfer. The MedAnsh team is led by a single doctor, Dr. Shrutika Thakkar and no part of the treatment or diagnosis is delegated to assistants or associates. Being located in Mulund, a quiet central suburb of Mumbai, means that it is within 25 kms of the Mumbai International Airport and within 2 kms of a major railway station. Mulund is one of the less polluted suburbs of Mumbai in the close vicinity of the evergreen Yeoor hills. This makes it the perfect location for an IVF centre as positive results are dependent on having a clean and sterile environment. Defining the True Essence of Motherhood Treatment at MedAnsh is customised for each and every couple and MedAnsh doesn’t believe in having a ‘one protocol for all’ run of mill like strategy. The hospital is specially designed to optimize IVF success rates. Adjacent pass through from the Operating room to the IVF lab ensures the eggs that are being retrieved or embryos that are being transferred are not exposed to detrimental fluctuations in environment. The IVF OT is a separate operation theatre that is not used for any other purposes except for assisted reproduction. This ensures that the operation theatre meets all the sterilization and air purification criteria essential for successful pregnancies. As MedAnsh hospital is a complete women care set up, the couples’ pregnancy is also managed with the utmost of care. Most IVF set ups think that their job ends when the couple is pregnant and do not get involved in the journey of pregnancy and delivery of the baby. MedAnsh- believes in ensuring the couple actually achieves their dream of becoming parents. It provides full obstetric care and pediatric support to the couple throughout pregnancy and post- delivery. It realizes the value of the precious pregnancy and does not stop caring until the baby is in the safe hands of its parents.‘We believe in creating happiness for all our patients. MedAnsh Multispeciality Hospital =Miracles Made Here’ Most Advanced IVF & FERTILITY Centres 2018 Inside the Laboratory at MedAnsh MedAnsh has a certified advanced air purification system for the IVF operation theatre and laboratory that cleans the air in the Lab and incubators inside-out. The outgassing of the materials in the Lab, the incubators and the dishes inside the incubators are usually the main source of chemical contamination. It is designed to purify not only the incoming air, but also the VOCs and particulates originated from the inside of the incubator, gas tank, and the room itself. The embryos are kept in incubators, which are monitored on a 24-hour basis to assure appropriate culture conditions. The andrology laboratory is also conveniently just outside the IVF OT. A separate semen collection room equipped with audio-visual aids helps in ensuring patient comfort and compliance. The IVF laboratory is equipped with the Nikon- Narishige Micromanipulation System, which offers ultimate performance and ease of use, with automated pipette set-up. This machine is useful to perform Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) in couples suffering from male factor infertility. New technologies have opened up new possibilities for therapeutic advances, which will increase the success rates for IVF of oocytes from women with compromised oocyte quality. For example, transference of fully functional mitochondria from other cells into mitochondria impaired oocytes can be done. MedAnsh looks for such new initiatives at low cost assisted with reproductive technologies, which needs to be considered by healthcare professionals. | October 2018 | 49