Barbados, IVF tourist destination.

The highly specialised in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure is turning out to be a godsend for Barbados as a medical tourism destination.

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr Joy St John, speaking during the official opening of the In-vitro Fertilisation

Unit at the Barbados Fertility Centre (BFC), Hastings, Christ Church, yesterday, said health tourism was rapidly growing in Barbados.

She said this was evidenced by the fact that last year 50 per cent of people who sought this service came from outside of Barbados.

Speaking in the absence of official figures, she said this trend was expected to increase this year and projected that over the next five years 70-80 per cent of those who were visiting for the service would be medical tourists.

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