Is overseas test tube technology more powerful? Why choose to go abroad for test tubes?
2020-04-21
On June 16, 2016, Dr. Mark Surrey, a member of the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of Surgery, who participated in the cultivation of the world's first IVF, taught foreign IVF techniques in Beijing. At the scene, a woman who came by plane from Chengdu to listen suddenly burst into tears.
This is not a surprise to Mark Surry. In the most famous reproductive center in the United States he created, the Southern California Fertility Center (SCRC), almost every day he received couples who came for help, of which China has become a customer The country with the largest number of growth.
Data from the World Health Organization show that with the increase in infertility rate, one in eight infertile couples in China are infertile, and infertile couples are showing a younger trend. The proportion of infertility people has risen from 1% to 2% in the 1970s to 10% to 15% today, an increase of about 10 times in 30 years.
Since the implementation of the comprehensive two-child policy in China on New Year's Day this year, some senior couples who want a second child face difficulties in pregnancy, so many Chinese people have turned their attention to the "test tube baby" service. It costs more than 300,000 to test-tube babies in the United States. At present, not only the United States but the entire Southeast Asia are coveting the Chinese market. The data released by the Stanford International Consulting Institute (SRI) of the United States shows that the global medical and health tourism industry is about USD 438.6 billion, accounting for about 14% of the total size of the global tourism industry. Analysts predict that China's cross-border medical market will exceed US $ 10 billion in the future, and China will become a new growth point for the global market.
"Test tube baby diagnosis and treatment in Thailand generally have the characteristics of high success rate and high cost performance. Moreover, we implement one-to-one customized services, and provide one-stop seamless docking services for Chinese patients from visas to language support to body conditioning. The staff of the Thai Global Reproductive Center told the reporter of China Economic Weekly.
According to Thai media reports, the success rate of IVF in Thailand is as high as about 60%, much higher than the success rate of IVF in some other Asian countries. Therefore, many unsuccessful couples who do test-tube babies in China choose to pin their hopes on Thai doctors.
"We already have a boy, and I especially want a little princess this time. You also know that sex is not allowed in China, so we have to choose to have a baby abroad." Jing, 36, said.
Previously, Jing went to the top three hospitals in Beijing for examination, but her experience was very poor. "It's all registered by mobile phone now, but it's still hard to find the number one. This is not to say, there is no privacy at the time of the inspection, and I feel particularly embarrassed. I also understand that domestic doctors see dozens of patients a day, impossible Be patient and considerate, but this is a top priority for our family and would rather spend more money to solve the problem. "Jing said helplessly.
Take Thailand as an example, the current market price is about 100,000 yuan, if you want to choose the gender of the baby, you need to add more than 60,000 yuan; while the cost in the United States is even higher, reaching more than 300,000 yuan. "We are pretty sure that Chinese patients are seeing an upward trend in the United States." SCRC's fertility expert Dr. Shahin Ghadir told China Economic Weekly that they expect 400 Chinese patients to fly over the Pacific and receive IVF in their hospitals in 2016. surgery. "My Chinese clients have received good education and good economic conditions. I think their purpose of seeking medical treatment is also very simple. It is not that the outside world is hoping to acquire nationality. They just want to use the most advanced technology in the best medical treatment. Conditions require a healthy child. "Dr. Shahin Ghadir said.
Foreign technology is really so good?
"Test-tube baby technology is not as modern as electronic products, one generation is better than one"
"I have a problem with my chromosomes, and my husband has a small number of sperm. We have already had a IVF in a top three hospital in Beijing but suffered a fetal stop. I heard that Thailand can provide advanced three-generation IVF technology, specifically for repeated People who have miscarriages or genetic diseases, I want to try it. "Pany, 34, said. In Dr. Mark Surry's speech, he showed the current state-of-the-art IVF technology in the United States, known as the EmbryoScope (embryo development observation box) technology of the fourth generation IVF in the world. EmbryoScope is the most commonly used time-lapse shooting system for observing embryo development in the world. It can maintain a stable embryo culture environment while observing, which can ensure the best development of embryos and effectively improve the pregnancy success rate. Moreover, patients and their families can see the time-lapse video taken by EmbryoScope at any time, which records the entire process of the egg from fertilization, division to development into a blastocyst.
Obviously, seeing the latest development of embryos every day is undoubtedly a surprise for patients, but is it suitable for everyone?
Professor Zuo Wenli, a well-known obstetrician and obstetrician and former director of the Reproductive Center of Peking University First Hospital, told reporters that many patients currently have misunderstandings about IVF "generation" and think that the third generation is better than the second generation, and the second generation is better than the first. "In fact, test-tube babies are not updated like electronic products, one generation is better than one generation." Zuo Wenli said that the so-called test-tube babies of the first, second and third generations are for different indications and should choose different "models" according to different needs. ". Zuo Wenli explained that “Generally speaking, the first-generation IVF adopts conventional IVF-embryo transfer, and the quality of the male semen should not be too bad; the second-generation IVF (single sperm microinjection) is mainly aimed at the situation of poor sperm quantity and poor quality The single sperm with good vitality and normal shape is directly injected into egg cells through micromanipulation technology to help complete the fertilization process; the third-generation test-tube baby (PGD) is aimed at people with repeated abortions or genetic diseases before embryo implantation Genetic diagnosis. "
"Different indications will choose different ways. It has nothing to do with advanced or non-advanced." Zuo Wenli said.
What is the risk of going IVF to do IVF?
The data shows that after the implementation of the comprehensive two-child policy, half of the 90 million target population with newly-born two-children is 40 to 49 years old. Under the obsession of "regenerating one", many senior couples and infertility patients pin their hopes on IVF technology.
The number of infertility in China has exceeded 40 million, and the scale of the assisted reproductive market has reached about 120 billion yuan. There are nearly 500 institutions that have obtained accreditation for assisted reproduction, and the demand for assisted reproduction market is strong.
"Since this year, more and more customers have consulted us about the IVF business, and almost every day people ask whether to do it or not." The head of a medical institution told reporters.
The huge demand has also boosted the overseas IVF market. However, this market is full of fish and dragons, and the qualifications of intermediaries are uneven. In addition, many patients are concerned about the gender of test-tube babies. Many intermediary agencies have catered to go to Thailand and the United States to make test-tube baby gender selection as a selling point to attract customers.
A family member of a patient who went to Thailand as a test-tube baby told reporters that his wife was treated with a test-tube baby in Thailand. He had previously undergone an operation, but it was unsuccessful. The injection of an egg-promoting agent takes 4 months or half a year to recover , "The loss to people is too great. My wife's skin will turn yellow after injection of egg-promoting agents, and her body is worse than before, and her career is completely interrupted." In addition, according to official information, Thailand prohibits the selection of test tubes For the gender of the baby, the website of the Ministry of Health and Medical Supervision of the Ministry of Health of Thailand shows that both parents who receive IVF services must be legal couples, and Thai law prohibits the examination of the sex of the fetus and the sale of eggs.
However, in Thailand, hospitals and clinics with test-tube babies as the main project, almost half of them provide services for selecting fetal gender, which is an open secret in this industry. In the United States, different states have different regulations.
