“Don’t aim at success-the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue….as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself”.

                              -Viktor Frankl (Man’s search for meaning)

Thus was born the Fertility Research Center…as a side effect of Dr.Kamala’s unstinted, dedicated hard work. Her basic need to fulfill the dreams of the unfulfilled, coupled with a thirst to acquire the latest knowledge in her chosen field, enabled her to start the ART Laboratory at G.G.Hospital in 1986. An account of her memoirs has been published which serves as an invaluable guide providing encouragement to beginners in the field of ART.

The initial struggle involved a number of overseas visits to other pioneering institutes, observation of their standards of work, quality control, results and last but not the least the two most important determinants of outcome-culture medium and maintenance and running of equipment. As   commercial   media   was   not   freely   available   at  the  time   and   proved to be very expensive to procure, Dr. Kamala had to learn the technique of preparation from Monash University, Melbourne. It also required a whole array of life sustaining salts and the Milli-Q water purification systems in order to be able to prepare it back home. Now the lab still uses the same culture medium besides commercial media for specialized procedures like ICSI and blastocyst cultures. When first started, the Laboratory was equipped to do only Intra uterine inseminations and thereafter progressed to incorporate the latest techniques in advanced infertility management. Tubal procedures are still carried out in patients with specific indications. The staffs are constantly updated on newer techniques and follow a rigid protocol in Laboratory maintenance as well as storage of records. A separate theatre complex is housed within the Lab for performing ovum pick-ups as well as for performing tubal procedures. Documentation of all procedures with color printout of the transferred embryos / blastocysts / tubal procedures are given to the couples.