Is Ukrainian medicine better than Israeli one?

Is Ukrainian medicine better than Israeli one?

Israeli medicine is known as the best one among world leaders based on good results and high quality of treatment of a wide range of diseases. Year by year, thousands of Ukrainian, Russian and CIS countries citizens find healing in Israel using its medical services. Reproductive medicine, in particular its assisted methods also do not keep in the background. Surrogate motherhood, which is so popular all over the world is banned in most European countries and legalized in Israel. Infertility is a serious challenge the whole world faced with. And Israeli clinics of reproductive medicine could not miss the chance to take the palm of victory in this area as well. Programs of egg donation and surrogacy are conducted here legally (Israeli law does not ban such procedures) and have a good result indicators. Nevertheless Israeli citizens massively go to Ukraine to use the same methods of infertility treatment they can use in Israel. The question that has to be answered is why?

Comparing the level of development in the field of economy, infrastructure and medicine of two states (Ukraine and Israel) Ukraine is, of course, lag behind in many positions. But in spite of this fact and a great number of negative comments concerning the level of service and availability of modern medical technologies in Ukraine every month thousands of Israelis visit Ukrainian Reproductive Medicine Clinics. Israel and Ukraine are two countries with the most loyal legislation concerning surrogacy. But it was Ukrainian doctors to won the palm of victory just in this field. The whole world makes a guess what Ukrainian doctors do in order to treat even the most hopeless cases of infertility. And people from high developed European countries come to Ukraine from all corners of the world to solve own problem of infertility?

Ukrainian embryologists do not possess of such an arsenal of modern equipment that Israel has but they conduct reproductive procedures and achieve maximum positive results. The fact is that Ukrainian specialists work only with fresh oocytes (cryopreservation of eggs significantly reduces chances for successful pregnancy) and perform embryo transfer on the fifth day (the best time to work with blastocysts). That’s why representatives of Ukrainian reproductive medicine have managed to achieve fantastic results in artificial insemination. One has only to recall case of 66-years-old Swiss woman who gave birth in a natural way using the IVF procedure in Ukraine. Ukraine has already become a Mecca for elderly foreigners who want to have children. Just in this country legal side of the issue is completely driven a nail home to the head, and in addition great positive statistics. Now three times more women give birth to their first child after 45 years old than it was twenty years ago. According to statistics, about 4% of women over 45 give birth in a natural way and more than 70% - using such procedure as egg donation. In addition, in Ukraine it is much easier and faster to find appropriate donor than in Israel, where patient has to wait for months.

Cost of reproductive medicine services in Ukraine is one more advantage that attracts foreign patients. Only India has cheaper prices. But taking into account dreadful Indian service in clinics and questionable conditions it is safe to say that Ukraine is the cheapest country for surrogacy programs fulfillment. You will need about 30,000 euro to perform such program in an accredited clinic that meets European standards.

Reasons people prefer Ukraine to Israel in the case of surrogacy program are decent quality of service, high percentage of successful programs and a great alternative to expensive medical institutions at home. Prices for services of Ukrainian surrogate mothers are considered the lowest ones in Europe.

Surrogate motherhood as a kind of reproductive medicine is considered to be quite spicy in most countries of the world. Therefore, each country tries to find the most optimal "normal attitude" to surrogacy. In Ukraine, these norms and concepts, it can be said for sure, were clearly fixed and Ukrainian law established acceptable rules and conditions for all participants of the surrogacy program and egg donation (sides who sign contract in particular clinic, biological parents, surrogate mother, donor of eggs). Ukrainian government does not stop at what it has already reached and continues to improve the regulations that relate to the field of reproductive medicine.

Today, many European countries work on the simplification of laws regulating reproductive medicine. But this issue is still controversial and sometimes even "hot" And Ukraine, meanwhile, helps infertile couples of the world to realize the dream of a long-awaited child under the best possible conditions.