The four kids — a pair of twins among them — who got to see the light of this world, thanks to an advanced degree of infertility treatment at Raipur in Chhattisgarh. A Telegraph picture

Raipur, Nov. 5: Even as the international and national medical fraternities continue to debate on the Rescue Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) technique, an infertility research centre in the Chhattisgarh capital has put a spanner in the controversy and achieved a perfect result.

Suresh Kumar of Ashoka Super Speciality Woman Hospital is the medico who’s hogged the limelight for experimenting the technique on three patients, who’ve been waited for a child for about 18 to 26 years after their marriage, and coming out with flying colours in each of the cases.

While the Sachdeva couple from Rajim (Raipur) had a child after 19 years of married life, Pinjani couple, also from Raipur, waited for a baby for 18 years. The Jena couple from Orissa was blessed with twins after 26 years of marriage.

Australian embryologist Natalie Van Gramberg assisted Kumar in the ICSI.

“When we informed Natalie of the success, she was also surprised as the success rate of the procedure across the globe was very low,” managing director of the hospital — a unit of Ashoka Super Speciality Hospital and Research Pvt Ltd — Suman Agarwal told The Telegraph.

The success could well be the first of its kind in the country as no other infertility research centre or hospital have been reported to come up with a success story, Agarwal further said.

In fact, this is not the first breakthrough that the Ashoka hospital has achieved at the international level.

Dr Kumar, an eminent gynaecologist, endoscopist and infertility expert, stole the headlines three years back when a 65-year old woman delivered a baby through the test-tube procedure. The feat of the hospital has been enlisted in the Limca Book of World Records in 2004.

According to Kumar, while infertility in women is principally triggered by tubal blocks and anovulation, it is caused in men due to oligospermia.

“Infertility is curable and doctors have been developing new and advanced technology to make the hospital a boon for the couples,” Kumar further said.

Patients in foreign countries, he added, besides different states in the India, are coming to Chhattisgarh for infertility treatment when patients from the nascent state are going over to metros and other big cities for treating other diseases.

According to the experts, Rescue ICSI Technique is a procedure in which is applied if fertilisation in the test-tube technique fails. In this case, fertilisation takes place on the very next day after the failed attempt through Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) technique.

The sperm is injected into the oocyte and well-fertilised embryos planted in the patient’s uterus. The technique is tough and the success rate is very low across the world.