Turkey: Preferred Destination for People Seeking Fertility Treatments

Turkey has become the preferred destination for couples who seek in vitro fertilization, say sources.

The secret of success: a cutting-edge technology comparable to that of the best European and American clinics at prices up to five times cheaper and a welcoming atmosphere.

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"Five years ago my husband and I wanted to have kids, and though we're both fertile, I could only get pregnant through assisted fertilization, a treatment that in the United States costs some $16,000 for having it done just once," Sarah Flores Sievers, director of a public health program in Santa Fe, New Mexico, told EFE.

"We faced a dilemma: do we pay our mortgage and our bills or do we have a baby?" Sievers said.

Even something as simple as a vaginal sperm injection, according to her husband, Fletcher Sievers, costs between $2,500 and $3,000 in the US.

Invitro Fertilisation
During IVF fertilization takes place invitro, in an incubated petri dish. The resulting embryo is transferred back to the uterus on Day 3 at the 6-8 cell stage. Sometimes the embryo transfer in done at the blastocyst stage on Day 5. The embryo is drawn into a specialized catheter along with a small amount of culture medium and is transferred to the uterus.

For that price a patient in Turkey can get the most advanced in vitro fertilization technology with a 40 to 55 percent rate of success, Bulent Tiras, head doctor of the fertility treatment unit at Acibadem Hospital in Istanbul, said.

Most of his patients are Turks, but Tiras estimates that from 10 to 15 percent come from abroad, mostly from Eastern Europe and the Balkans where the technology is less developed, as well as from Arab countries and Central Asia.

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