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Funds needed for fertility breakthrough being a reality

Funds needed for fertility breakthrough being a realityIf there are adequate funds then UK will see its first womb transplants and doctors can then hope to complete their research which is on.

For helping women who cannot have children but want to have due to particular reasons, Richard Smith, consultant gynaecological surgeon, and his team have been researching the possibility of transplanting a donor womb into a woman to help her have kids.

This simply comes to that in an attempt to help the body of a recipient; drugs are taken for a limited period only decreasing the health-risks that are associated with a long term.

In a bid to finish the ingoing research, doctors have launched a charity to raise cash and to go ahead with the first five operations. The groundwork for getting completed needs about £500,000 and Uterine Transplantation UK aims to raise this sum before going ahead with the surgery.

Dr Smith said, “We are confident, especially with a transplant abroad being carried out with the same methodology that we have recommended, that within two years or so, given enough funding, we can begin helping women in the UK.”