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15 pc married women unable to conceive
infertility among the women Is breaking family serenity as more than three million or about 15 per cent married women of the country are unable to conceive, reports UNB.
Only two per cent of the Infertile couples can afford to go abroad for Investigation and treatment, and they drain out about Tk 150 crore every year, physicians said Monday at the publication ceremony of a journal on infertility and sterility.
They identified sharp rise Of sexually transmitted diseases. Indiscriminate use of family planning methods, atomic radiation, smoking, specific abortion, septic delivery and itrogenic factors in the jxxjr section as the causes of infertility.
Childlessness Is the prime cause of family unrest like polygamy, divorce and suicide. Both male and females are responsible for infertility but in most cases females are to be blamed for the cause in our country, the physicians said.
Speaking on Infertility. Deputy Leader of the House Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury called for concerted efforts of government. NGOs. private sector and international community to contain the increasing rate of infertility.
He laid emphasis on the spread of knowledge of reproductive biology related to fertility among the country's 20.000 medical practitioners. "Specialised knowledge should
always be expanded and updated."
Prof Chowdhury said Bangladesh's population control programme is highly acclaimed around the world, but "We should further Intensify our work to contain population boom as well as the Infertility problem."
The government will extend allout cooperation In establishing an institute of Re productivity to extend better Investigation and treatment facilities to the infertile women of the country, he said.
WHO Representative Dr W Hartaotanojo said some 2-10 per cent couples around the world are unable to conceive and bear a first child, and 10-25 per cent are unable to have a second or subsequent cltUd. known as secondary sub-infertility.
The list of causes of sub-fertility are complex but STD. in the present context of "openness," specially gonorrheal and chlamydia infection both in the female and males seems to be quite common, he said.
Bangladesh Fertility Society, which publishes The "Bangladesh Journal of Infertility and Sterility." organised the publication ceremony at BIRDEM auditorium.