Jakub Dejewski: IVF Turns 49, We’re Making It with 49 More Families
Jakub Dejewski, Chair at the European Fertility Society, CEO at IVF Media, and Co-Founder of CAPTCHAT, shared on LinkedIn:
“On 12 November 1977, exactly 49 years ago, in a small hospital in Oldham, England, Dr. Patrick Steptoe placed an 8-cell embryo into Lesley Brown’s womb. It was the transfer that would give the world its first IVF baby.
We count IVF’s anniversary from this day.
Today, IVF turns 49.
Prof. Sir Robert Edwards, Dr Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy were told for ten years that it could not be done.
We want to mark what they started the way they would have: not with a gala, but with 49 more families.
Today I’m excited to announce that The European Fertility Society (EFS) has launched 49 Families Across Europe, a campaign that brings clinics together to give 49 families the chance to build theirs.
49 clinics. Each funds one IVF cycle for one patient or a couple. We make sure Europe hears their story. 49 clinics, each saying: this one is on us.
Every clinic knows the patient who listened to the plan, nodded, and never came back. Not because they didn’t believe you, but because they did the maths on the way home, and the treatment was out of their reach. This is the moment for 49 of those patients to come back.
11 clinics have already joined 49 Families Project!
- Embrions Center of Reproductive Medicine, Riga, Latvia
- IREMA, Ondara, Spain
- Cyprus Dunya IVF – Kıbrıs Dünya Tüp Bebek Merkezi, Kyrenia, North Cyprus
- UR Vistahermosa, Alicante, Spain
- Ferrobelab International, Alicante, Spain
- LeaderMed/In Vitro Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
- European Fertility Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Vita Altera IVF Center – Tüp Bebek Merkezi, Nicosia, North Cyprus
- Nadezhda Women’s Health Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Institut Marquès, Barcelona, Spain
- ASSISTING NATURE, Thessaloniki, Greece
Registration is open from today until all 49 places are filled.
Would you like your clinic to be one of the 49? Join 49 Families Across Europe!
It starts with a conversation. Leave your details and we will be in touch. The link is in the comments.
In partnership with Future Fertility Show, Dublin, and Fertility Road Magazine.”
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