China News Service, Yinchuan, January 8th (Reporter Li Peishan) As the Spring Festival approaches, many people have made their own wishes, and many of them are expecting a good pregnancy.
On January 8, as usual, the outpatient department of the Reproductive Medicine Research Center of Yinchuan Maternity and Child Health Hospital of Ningxia was still bustling. Under the guidance of number caller and nurse guidance, urgent patients still look forward to one minute earlier See the doctor.
The doctor's experiment is in progress.
Photo by Zhang Jielong
The Reproductive Medicine Research Center of Yinchuan Maternity and Child Health Hospital was established in 2002. It was the first reproductive medicine center in Ningxia to pass the review of the National Ministry of Health. It is also the birthplace of Ningxia’s first test-tube baby.
As of June 30, 2020, a total of 3,515 healthy IVF babies were born here.
Many patients affectionately call this the "land of dreams."
"Looking at the eyes of each patient asking for a child, we are deeply moved, especially for some families suffering from the loss of independence. This seems to be their only'life-saving straw'." Zhang Yan is a reproductive staff at Yinchuan Maternal and Child Health Hospital. The clinical director of the Medical Research Center, she and her colleagues have witnessed the stories of many people and helped many people realize their dreams.
"I hope that with our help, more families will enjoy the family happiness so that pregnancy will come true, so that infertility will no longer become a life problem.
Embryo storage tank in the embryo laboratory.
Photo by Zhang Jielong
In response to this desire, in the course of more than 10 years of development, the Reproductive Center has been rated as a key specialty in Ningxia Autonomous Region. Starting from talent training, equipment introduction, and high-quality services, it highlights technological innovation and has successively filled more than 10 human assisted reproductive technologies in Ningxia. blank.
At present, the center has embryo laboratory, IVF clinic area and reproductive minimally invasive surgery ward. It has advanced morphological selection intracytoplasmic sperm injection instrument, tri-gas incubator, water injection laparoscope and other equipment, from only one The consulting room and a ward were developed into an area of 1600 square meters with a laboratory work area of 400 square meters and 15 beds.
Especially after undertaking national-level project projects, Ningxia Natural Science Foundation projects, scientific and technological research projects, and benefiting people, winning the Ningxia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award and being assessed by the Yinchuan Science and Technology Bureau as a small talent highland in Yinchuan City, a large amount of capital investment has allowed Their team continues to grow, and the empowerment of technology has also enabled the research of the reproductive system with more technology and big data.
It is understood that under normal circumstances, the egg retrieval cycle is 3-4 weeks. After the sperm and eggs of the expectant parents are retrieved, they are sent to a clean and sterile embryo laboratory, and a romantic group date starts in a petri dish.
If it goes well, you can get pregnant in 30-40 days.
"Because of the long test tube cycle, patients need to withstand the physical and psychological synchronization of'torture'. Therefore, as doctors in the reproductive center, we must be closer to the patient's heart." Zhang Yan said that doing this job is more life-oriented Awe, “We have helped many prefectural and city-level hospitals in Ningxia to establish infertility clinic units, continue to carry out infertility standard diagnosis and treatment classes, and teach courses on reproductive health and adolescent health for college students and other groups. , All to make everyone's awareness of reproductive protection stronger, and our patients'less'." (End)