Gandhi hospital records first free IVF baby delivery

A 30-year-old woman from Alwal delivered a baby girl after receiving free IVF treatment at Gandhi Hospital. After multiple failed attempts at private hospitals, she successfully conceived and gave birth through the hospital’s first successful IVF programme.

Hyderabad: State-run Gandhi Hospital has recorded its first successful IVF (In-Vitro fertilisation) delivery for a 30-year-old woman, Shruthi from Alwal, who had previously faced multiple failed fertility treatments at private hospitals. The woman gave birth to a baby girl weighing 2 kilograms on February 7 following the IVF procedure, which was conducted free of cost at the In-Vitro Fertility Centre, Gandhi Hospital.

According to doctors, before coming to Gandhi Hospital, the young woman, who was married about 7 years ago and faced long-term infertility, had undergone multiple failed IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) attempts at private hospitals.

The initial consultation, work-up, and ovulation induction at the infertility outpatient wing at Gandhi Hospital were taken up in February, 2025. On May 2, 2025, the IVF process was initiated with initial treatments showing no response, making the medical team decide to take up IVF treatment.

Each cycle of IVF treatment costs close to Rs 6 lakh in private infertility clinics. Usually, IVF treatment in one single cycle does not succeed. So, such cycles are taken up multiple times in private facilities. However, the entire IVF treatment cycle for the woman was done free of cost, Hospital doctors said.

The young woman underwent a C-section on February 7, 2026, and the pre-term baby girl was initially monitored in the NICU. Later, the baby girl was transitioned to stay with the mother under pediatric supervision, doctors said, adding that both the mother and the baby are doing well.