Criteria for PGS Trial (& Stupid Comments on Facebook)

See what stupid comments some people wrote! So fuming angry to read those idiots writing like as if they are so wise! They are so ridiculously ignorant and still dare to judge people going for IVF! You morons better beware, even if it's not infertility that comes after you, karma will surely come around and give you a tight slap in the face!

Catching up on Medical Advances

For the past months, there has been rumours spreading in the IVF community that government hospitals could be allowing PGS (pre-implantation genetic screening) for more patients. Singapore tends to be rather lacking behind in offering newer technology because of the really long approval process, which is often due to the need to have enough evidences to proof its benefits and, in this case, due to the fear of abuse.

One thing for sure, this addition procedure will bring up the total cost of each fresh IVF cycle quite significantly, in the range of thousands. Would government provide more co-funding? Can the patient make payment using Medisave? If there's no co-funding and Medisave can be used, would there be a need to revise the current lifetime withdrawal limit of $15,000? Also, having PGS would mean that the embryo(s) will only be transfer in a subsequent frozen cycle, which again, is additional cost.