The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) has set the protocol with which IVF is applied in the country.
Fiorella Bagnarello, coordinator of IVF Commission in the Fund, explained how to operate these processes.
The protocol included the arrival of new medicines and supplies to the country, which are in the process of registration.
Seven specialists will be trained outside the country starting in 2017. Among them, two embryologists.
They still don’t have the building for the Reproductive Medicine Unit of High Complexity, but they already have the backing of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) for direct procurement by $ 6 million.
This building will be built in the Women’s Hospital between July and November this year. It is expected that this unit treats 170 cases per year and up to 2 cycles or attempts will be authorized per case.
Infertility is a health problem that is addressed in 80% of cases through treatments of low complexity such as artificial insemination.
IVF is used when a woman or her partner have completed the comprehensive studies and deplete their chances of pregnancy with other techniques.