{"id":154351,"date":"2026-01-27T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154351"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:11:57","slug":"sri-lankan-public-hospital-to-offer-ivf-treatment-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/01\/27\/sri-lankan-public-hospital-to-offer-ivf-treatment-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan public hospital to offer IVF treatment for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy <strong>\u00a0Peoples Gazette<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>According to health authorities, the move is expected to reduce the cost barrier associated with fertility treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vguty.png\" alt=\"IVF Chart\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vguty.png 710w, https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vguty-300x169.png 300w\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IVF Chart used to illustrate the story [Credit: News-Medical]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s public healthcare system is set to offer in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment for the first time, with a new facility to be established at the Castle Street Hospital for Women in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to health authorities, the move is expected to reduce the cost barrier associated with fertility treatment, which is currently available almost entirely through private medical providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the private sector, a single IVF cycle typically costs between two million rupees ($6,460) and three million rupees, limiting access for many couples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ajith Kumara Danthanarayana, director of Castle Street Hospital, work is underway to set up the IVF unit, which is scheduled to begin operations within approximately three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the initiative is intended to make advanced fertility treatment accessible to couples who have been unable to pursue private options due to financial constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service would be integrated into the hospital\u2019s existing maternal and reproductive health programmes, which are a leading public maternity institution in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy \u00a0Peoples Gazette According to health authorities, the move is expected to reduce the cost barrier associated with fertility treatment. IVF Chart used to illustrate the story [Credit: News-Medical] Sri Lanka\u2019s public healthcare system is set to offer in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment for the first time, with a new facility to be established at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154352,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154351\/revisions\/154352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}