HOW COVID CHANGED I.V.F.
When the country originally went into lockdown, thoughts for many turned to job security, home schooling and when we would next be able to see family and friends. However, for some people, there was another huge preoccupation: the stop that was being put to their fertility treatments.
Britain’s fight against coronavirus meant egg collections were cancelled, embryo transfers ceased and clinics were forced to close their doors.
“In March, NHS England asked trusts to suspend all elective services in order to allow the NHS to focus on the pandemic. This included fertility services,” says Rehan Salim, consultant gynaecologist and head of IVF at Imperial College NHS Trust in London.
“We stopped 120 cycles
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