Where a glimmer of hope can beat the odds
(sz) For many infertile couples in the UAE, the stork has missed their home a little too often. But in Dubai, they have found a stork of their own, located within a nondescript white building within the Rashid Hospital compound.
It is the Dubai Gynaecology and Fertility Centre (DGFC), a place that hundreds of couples flock to each year in the hope of one day holding their very own bundle of joy.
Set up in partnership between the Dubai Department of Health and Medical Services (Dohms) and a leading UK-based fertility expert, Professor Ian Craft, in 1991, the centre has been responsible for more than 2,300 babies born to couples in the UAE and surrounding countries.
Dr Husnia Gargash, consultant gynaecologist and director of the centre, tells Gulf News that fertility is an important issue to everybody.
“But here, it’s a big issue if women cannot get pregnant. They are constantly pressured by in-laws and sometimes it is taken to the extreme, ending up with divorce or the husband taking another wife,” she says. more…
From: »Gulfnews.com«