“One afternoon a domestic worker came to my office,” says Dr Goolam Mohamed, chair of the Sandton Fertility Centre in Johannesburg.
“She was a single 38 year-old with a deep sadness on her face. She told me that she had had two ectopic pregnancies and her fallopian tubes had been cut off. She said she was depressed and had no desire for anything except a child.
“I knew she could not afford traditional in vitro fertilisation, so I tried a different process at a very low cost.
“An ultrasound showed that she had a good number of eggs, so instead of injecting hormones, I administered oral ovulation induction agents. To
