How the founder of CREATE brought hope to those needing IVF
Dr Geeta Nargund has spent her career campaigning to improve access to fertility treatment. She tells Zlata Rodionova about how CREATE came to be
Ever since the world’s first in-vitro fertilisation baby was born in 1978 in the UK, the procedure has given hope to millions of couples who could not conceive.
Professor Dr Geeta Nargund, the founder and medical director of CREATE Fertility, says: “When I first started working in IVF as a junior doctor I heard about a condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, which can lead to complications and can be life-threatening.
“I thought that this cannot continue. This cannot happen. Women are having this treatment to create lives, why should we compromise theirs.”
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