Success of local fertility centre ‘a tourism boost’
(sz) Barbados continues to outstrip more developed countries in its ability to help women become fertile, thereby making this country an increasingly attractive destination for medical tourism.
The Barbados Fertility Centre (BFC) proved this in its latest statistics which show that women under 38 coming to this country for in vitro fertility (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment are achieving a pregnancy rate of 56.3 per cent – 14 per cent more than is being achieved in the United States and a whopping 34 per cent more than in Britain.
According to the centre, local statistics are compared to those from the Centre of Disease Control in the United States and Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and presented according to the age of the female, since this had a significant impact on the likely success of fertility treatment. more…
From: »Nation News« (The Nation Newspaper)