Treatment only for those who can pay

FROM the home to the workplace to the altar the national financial crisis is affecting every facet of life and infertility is no exception.

At the Galway Fertility Unit in Rahoon, medical director Dr Declan Egan says they used to treat medical card holders free of charge but the demand became too great.

“My clinic is full of people from abroad who have no money, who have no job, or are on the dole, or are refugees from wherever, who had no money when they came and still have no money, so there’s a hell of a lot of those around.