Mumbai health experts warn how everyday chemical exposure causes infertility
Infertility has quietly become one of the more pressing public health concerns of our time, touching nearly one in six people across the world. However, Mumbai health experts say the role that everyday chemical exposure may be playing in this doesn’t get highlighted as much as it should.
Every year, World IVF Day is observed on July 25 to commemorate the birth of Louise Brown, who is the world's first successful in vitro fertilisation baby, born in 1978. However, it is also used to highlight reproductive challenges including infertility, and city-based fertility specialists highlight how chemicals are one of the reasons for it.
What are the chemicals affecting fertility?
Dr. Hitesha Ramnani Rohira, Consultant, IVF at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, explains, “Almost everyone today...







