Ramallah: A total of 600 intfertile Palestinian couples will be able to access the complex and expensive IVF procedure thanks to Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Humanitarian Foundation which sponsors the treatment in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
In Vitro Fertilization has been a dream for thousands of Palestinian couples unable to afford the treatment.
Hundreds of these couples were added to the list of names slotted for treatement by the Khalifa Foundation.
Dr. Jalila Dahlan, who heads the Palestinian Centre for Humanitarian Connection, said the treatment will cover 400 couples in Gaza Strip and 200 couples in the West Bank.
“Contracts have already been signed with the infertility centres which will observe the treatment of those couples in Palestine,” said Jalila on her facebook page.
Dr. Zaid Nasser of the Razan Infertility Centre in Nablus said that his centre has already received the list of names of the beneficiaries and that treatment will commence immediately.
“The donation covers all the treatment expenses including the medical tests,” he told Gulf News.
The IVF attempt costs, after official discounts, about 10,000 Shekels, an expense the majority of Palestinian couples cannot afford.
Infertility has been a key cause of divorce in Palestine and as many as 20 percent of Palestinian divorces are attributed to it.
Many times, men marry a second wife if the couple fails to get pregnant, without even checking if the man is infertile or not.
