Infertility Clinic
Assalamu alaikum. I've been to HMC for a referral on IVF after 3 failed IUIs in a private clinic here in Doha...The first appointment took us 4 months of waiting and when that time came I was told to come back on the 2nd or 3rd day of my period...Unfortunately after vacationing to the Philippines, we came back to Doha on day 5 of my period and I was immediately turned down for an appointment with my doctor. As there are no other IVF facility in Qatar, we have to wait again for my next period (although we are still hopeful every month that period will not come and just get pregnant naturally). We waited patiently and still without luck, my period came. I went back to HMC for an appointment but now I made sure it is my 2nd day... After being told to wait for my doctor to come,I was sent back and forth to station 6, then station 3, then station 6 again, then station 3 again, then station 5.....Only to find out my doctor cannot see me during daytime and I have to come back 4-8PM to take my chances of being called for consultation...How stressful this experience is for an already stressed infertile couple...The mental torture is just so much...I have been telling myself to be patient but I am already 35 years old and my biological clock is not stopping if I don't get an appointment! HMC is the only hospital where IVF can be done here in Qatar... which means it is our only hope here...but as it is, the experience becomes more traumatic and depressing...When I failed to get an appointment last month I was told not to get depressed but now I can't help it....:-(...I am hoping that with the improvement of infrastructure in the Women's Hospital comes with it the improvement in information system which will greatly alleviate the suffering of couples like us wishing to establish a family through the services exclusively offered in HMC...I feel that there is a sincere effort in making things more systematic and therefore my letter is not to belittle all these efforts but to suggest that 1) there shall be a general guide for patients to follow seeking specific services in the hospital and this shall be placed in the entrance where all coming patients can refer to; 2) there shall be a prominent structural chart in every station to post the names of persons in-charge of the services; and 3) there shall be an exemption in the case of couples being treated for infertility (men are not allowed inside WH)...But infertility may involve the wife or the husband or even both...As this is the case, I hope The HMC Women's Hospital take a consideration in putting-up fertility clinics that can be accessed by the couple and I further suggest leveling-up of services offered to include (Islamic) counseling for these couples to address depression and other psychological effects of infertility...I am a doctor by profession and I know how hard it is to have many patients with many different problems...but it is more difficult to take the position of a PATIENT who does not even know where to start finding the solution to his/her problem... Allahu Akbar!
Dear Maylin, don't despair. It will happen when it is meant to happen, God is great, and so is His plan. Trust that plan. Have you considered adoption? And if you find the services here are not helping you, can you go abroad for treatment? Considering, that might take more than a month and your husband needs to be with you too.
And do plan Umrah, pray your heart out. Pray that you get what is best for you. Please don't stress yourself out. Find activities that cheer you up. And foremost, focus on what you already have in life, feel blessed :)
Praying for the best for you.
I hope that you will be treated soon or you will get what from God what you wish . I know what are you talking about - have been to the outpatient clinics of women hospital go to this station /go to that section..etc ..
and men are not allowed to enter the outpatient clinics .. then it happened to me that I had to take my new born into the new born baby clinics which strangely was found inside the outpatient clinics of women hospital at that time . But I was still weak by the C -section and I was not able to carry my baby . So I had no other solution I had to ask my husband to do so . When he entered with a baby in his hand then the security cornered him and was talking to him rudely .When they saw that there was no other way - they accepted it -but looking at us angrily . I do not think that I was the only woman who was weak some days after delivery and had no female help with .It is somehow not well thought of . On the other hand inside the hospital there were too many male relatives all the day . Most of then were politely hiding behind the curtains surrounding the beds but it happened that some of them was just sitting in the middle of the room and it was very embarrassing when I needed to go somewhere . So I think they just do not think deeply about it .