Govt. IVF services changing fertility landscape in Telangana; State-run hospitals log 190 infertility cases

Telangana government hospitals report 190 successful infertility cases, highlighting the rise of public IVF care amid private treatment failures.

After multiple failed infertility treatments at private hospitals, a 30-year-old woman from Alwal here has delivered a healthy baby girl following in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment at government-run Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, highlighting the growing role of government healthcare institutions in providing advanced fertility services.

The woman, married for seven years, approached the infertility outpatient department at Gandhi Hospital in February last year after several unsuccessful intrauterine insemination (IUI) attempts elsewhere. Following a detailed infertility work-up, doctors initiated medical ovulation induction. As there was no adequate response, she was taken up for IVF.

She was monitored throughout the antenatal period and was admitted with preterm onset of labour, following which an emergency lower-segment caesarean section was performed on February 7. She delivered a female baby weighing 2 kilograms. The newborn was shifted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for monitoring in view of prematurity and was later kept with the mother under paediatric supervision. Both the mother and the baby are currently doing well.

This case comes amid a steady expansion of infertility services at government healthcare institutions in Telangana over the past year. IVF centres were inaugurated at Gandhi Hospital and the Modern Government Maternity Hospital (MGHM) Petlaburj in late 2024 with services ranging from infertility evaluation to assisted reproductive technologies. Overall, infertility services at these two institutions have resulted in 190 positive cases through a combination of ovulation induction, IUI and IVF treatments.

From the inception of these services to January 2026, the two centres together registered 8,359 new infertility outpatients and 19,013 review cases, taking the total outpatient visits to 27,372. During this period, 568 hysterosalpingography procedures (X-ray tests to assess the uterus and fallopian tubes) and 14,033 follicular studies (ultrasound scans used to monitor ovulation) were conducted as part of infertility assessment.

Medical ovulation induction was provided to 3,004 women, of whom 159 tested positive for pregnancy. Gandhi Hospital carried out 1,550 ovulation induction procedures, recording 56 positive cases, while MGMH Petlaburz conducted 1,454 procedures with 103 positive outcomes.