"Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself."
-Viktor Frankl (Man’s search for meaning)
Thus was born the Fertility Research Center as a side effect of Dr. Kamala’s unstinted, dedicated hard work. Her basic need to fulfill the dreams of the unfulfilled, coupled with a thirst to acquire the latest knowledge in her chosen field, enabled her to start the ART Laboratory at G.G.Hospital in 1986. An account of her memoirs has been published which serves as an invaluable guide providing encouragement to beginners in the field of ART.
The initial struggle involved a number of overseas visits to other pioneering institutes, observation of their standards of work, quality control, results and last but not the least the two most important determinants of outcome-culture medium and equipment.
Since the last four decades, GG Hospital which pioneered South India’s first test tube baby on August 1st 1990, has had several firsts to its credit in the field of fertility and research. The full list can be found here.