Apollo launches Centre of Excellence for fertility

Apollo Hospitals Colombo launched the Centre of Excellence for fertility, a long-felt need in the healthcare sector of Sri Lanka.

The Centre of Excellence "Apollo fertility centre" was unveiled by the Chairman of Lanka Hospitals Corporation at the IVF laboratory recently. The fertility team of Apollo, Colombo is headed by Dr. Nithya Jayawickrama, an eminent Senior Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician with 25 years' extensive experience and exposure in the UK, Dr. Madara Ralapanawe, the Resident Clinical Embryologist of Apollo. Dr. Madara Ralapanawe is the only medical doctor who holds a post graduate master's degree in Clinical Embryology in Sri Lanka.

Gynaecologists, Radiologists, Endocrinologists, Urologists and Physicians teamed together at the Apollo Fertility centre to provide exclusive medical care to achieve a pregnancy to Subfertile Couples.

The Apollo fertility centre has achieved 110 pregnancies during the past 10 months from the Intra Uterine Insemination (IUI) treatment.