About 6 months back a lady who is my old patient walked in to my OPD with 'Delhi Times' folded and very tightly held in her hands .She was undergoing treatment for secondary infertility and at the same time was under tremendous pressure from her family to produce a heir(male child) for the family.She opened the folded news paper in front of me and asked 'Is this Possible,Doctor'?Delhi Times had reported that many Indian celebrities are going to Thailand for gender selection of their babies through Assisted reproductive Technology.She was very keen to go for it if that was possible.Though it was possible but to her pleasure mixed disappointment she tested positive for pregnancy in her that very visit and thus that gender selection never took place.But I did realize the power of MEDIA.I realized inadvertently they have opened a Pandora's box.
Yesterday,main TOI reported lot many Indian Couples are visiting Thailand to adopt the same technology to have baby boys.
DO THESE MEDIA PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THEY IN SOME WAY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT SO RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR OF THESE DESPERATE INDIAN COUPLES????????
Not a routine health blog.Written by a Gurgaon IVFspecialist working in an Indian Corporate Hospital (Artemis Hospital,Gurgaon with personal clinic at Nirvana Courtyard, Nirvana Country,Gurgaon)addressing various aspects ofInfertility,IVF and women health in general,Pregnancy,ups and downs of patients and doctors and their interpersonal relationships.Mostly sweet,sometimes sour,just the way life is .........
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