GG Hospital

GG Hospital has many firsts. In fact, the first surrogate born baby bas delivered in June, 1994, by Kamala Selveraj of GG Hospital. GG Hospital also had the first IVF-ET baby of south India, Kamala Rathnam was born to a 46-year-old lady – Ponna Ramamurthy on 1st August 1990.

Since then GG Hospital has had many achievements to its credit :-

FIRST IN SOUTH EAST ASIA

The Twins born to a patient with Mayer-Rokintansky-Kustner-Hauser Syndrome through a surrogate – 19th January 2001

FIRST IN INDIA

First Sperm attached Oocyte Fallopian-tube Transfer (SOFT) – 4th July 1992
First Surrogate baby – 23rd June 1994
First IVF –ET baby born to a 49 year old lady – 10th October 1994
First Frozen Oocyte Baby - 27th August 2008

FIRST IN SOUTH INDIA

First test tube baby, Kamala Rathnam – 1st August 1990
First Gamete Intra Fallopian-tube Transfer (GIFT) twins - 21st September 1992
First Pronucleus stage transfer (PROST) twins – 12th August 1992
First fallopian replacement of pre-ovulatory oocytes with timed IUI (FROOTI) baby – 25th July 1995
First Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) baby – 9th May 1997
First frozen ET Triplets – 19th November 1998
First ICSI triplets – 13th June 2005

FIRST IN TAMIL NADU

Baby born by donor oocyte programme in a case of Premature Ovarian Failure (POF) – 19th October 1994.

GG Hospital has achieved the highest number of successful pregnancies from 1989 till October 2005, by IUI techniques, the number crossing over 6080. The total number of pregnancies achieved by the ART procedures is 1660.