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.
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