Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital : Centre for Human Reproduction

Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital – Centre for Human Reproduction, is one of India's largest human sperm banks and is on par with any comparable International bank. It provides the most up-to-date genetic and infectious disease tested donor semen for infertile couples as well as freezing and storage services to patients desiring to have their own semen specimens preserved for future use.

Introducing Sperm Bank's Directed Donor Program
Are your patients interested in using semen donated by a known donor - a close relative or trusted family friend perhaps - but are uncertain how to proceed?

Let our Sperm Bank take the guess-work out of Directed Donor processing.Our Sperm Bank's Directed Donor Program is designed to assist professionals and patients with all aspects of Directed Donor Testing and Processing.

"There are many ways for a man to lose his fertility but the heartache of a childless future is always the same. If your future fertility is threatened or at risk, consult your physician about sperm banking or call us."

Are your patients at risk of losing their fertility due to surgery, cancer therapy, or vasectomy?
Consider Long-Term Sperm Cryopreservation

Cancer Therapy
Chemotherpy - Radiation Therapy - Diathermy

Surgery
Testicular - Pituitary - Prostate

High Risk Occupations
Environmental Pollutants - Radiation
Environments - Military Service - Athletics

Vasectomy
Oligozoospermia

TOGETHER, WE'LL KEEP YOUR HOPES ALIVE
Do your patients have irregular cycles? Do their partners have low sperm parameters? Do they travel often and miss their partner's ovulation?

Consider Short-term Cryopreservation

Donor Profile

Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital- Center For Human Reproduction-Sperm Bank, is one of India's largest human sperm banks and is on par with any comparable International bank. It provides the most up-to-date genetic and infectious disease tested donor semen for infertile couples as well as freezing and storage services to patients desiring to have their own semen specimens preserved for future use.

How to become a Donor?
Our donors are normal, physically and mentally healthy men from a broad cross section of society. Most of them are professionals or students from institutions of higher education. Each donor meets rigorous selection criteria and undergoes a thorough examination prior to acceptance. The donors receive only a small remuneration, and it is our belief that they are genuine in their desire to help others.

Donors are fully informed concerning the activities of the centre and affirm they have not had homosexual intercourse, do not belong to any group at risk for AIDS, and furthermore, that they are willing to donate semen to be used by childless couples for artificial insemination. Donors renounce all paternal rights and responsibilities. The donors are given explicit assurance of anonymity.

Prior to approval, donors are tested for antibodies against HIV-I and -II, VDRL, as well as hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis C (HCV-Ab) and bloodgroup (AB0) is registered. All donors are screened for Thalessemia. Complete anamnesis (specifically regarding possible inheritable conditions) is recorded and the data are entered into a registry of donors. Every donor is examined and given final approval by a medical doctor.

Once every three months, donors are retested for the sexually transmissible diseases: HIV-I and -II.

Donor characteristics on file includes: donor number, build, height, weight, peculiarities of appearance (e.g. complexion etc.) psychological profile, age, education/occupation, blood type, and negative results on tests for HBsAg, HCV-Ab, syphilis, HIV-I and -II, and Thalessemia.

Semen stays frozen in quarantine for at least three months, after which time the donor must be HIV-negative before the semen can be released

Donor Information
A Step by step description of how we select donors for our program:

Have you ever wondered how a semen bank selects its donors. At our Sperm Bank, we use a stringent screening process and currently accept into our donor program fewer than 5% of the men who apply.
Here's why:

The Phone Call...
The process begins with a phone call to our donor coordinator. She asks potential donors a few basic questions regarding their height, weight, age and educational background. She also asks whether he or his parents are adopted.

These questions are asked for the following reasons:
1. We have a minimum height requirement because the majority of our clients request donors between 5'6" and 6'2".

2. The weight of each donor must be in approximate proportion to his height. Excessive overweight or underweight donors are not accepted into our program due to potential medical problems associated with abnormal weight.

3. Donors must be between the age of 19 and 34. While a man's fertility does not automatically decline after the age of 34, men under that age are more likely to consistently produce superior quality of sperm necessary for successful freezing and thawing.

4. The Sperm Bank requires that donors attend, or have graduated from, a major 4-year university. The majority of our donors come from the University of Bombay.

5. We accept only those men who can provide the medical and genetic information on themselves and their family members required by the Sperm Bank.

The Screening Process...
If a potential donor meets the above listed requirements, our donor coordinator will ask him to complete the donor application form and provide a semen sample. The semen sample will then be analyzed to determine whether the donor's semen meets our standards.
The majority of potential donors are disqualified due to inadequate semen specimens. Because a small portion of the sperm is lost in the freezing and thawing process, a donor's fresh semen samples must meet certain minimum requirement. In order to qualify for our donor program, 70% of his sperm must be motile, 60% must have normal morphology, and the sperm count must be at least 60 million sperm per cc.
A donor applicant is disqualified from participation in the donor program if there is a family history which indicates that the man's offspring may be at increased risk for a birth defect or known genetic condition. If there is a personal history of alcohol or other drug abuse, the applicant will not be accepted as a donor. If the medical director is satisfied that the man is a good candidate for our donor program, he is given a number and he is admitted into our program.

Donor Characteristics

Donor list
We have 18 selected donors in our corps. Only medical institutions can acquire the donor list. Please identify yourselves by writing to us either by post, fax or e-mail.

Banking Humour

Some not too smart gangsters decide to rob a bank. After several days of planning they agree on the best plan. The next day they get to work and are able to get into the bank relatively easy thanks to their planning. Once inside the main vault they discover one wall is full of safety deposit boxes and start to work on them immediately. They drill and pry open the first box only to find a small container of vanilla pudding inside.
The Head Gangster says "Okay, well, at least we can eat it."

So they eat the pudding. They drill and pry open up the second Safety deposit box and there sits another pudding. They decide to devour it too. They didn't find any money or jewelry in any of the boxes. Disappointed the head gangster said "Well, at least they left something for us to eat". The next day, while listening to the news they hear: "Yesterday the largest sperm bank in the USA was robbed by an unknown group of people".

This actually happened at Harvard University in October of last year. I thought you would find it educational. In a biology class, the Prof. was discussing the high glucose levels found in semen. A young female (freshman) raised her hand and asked "If I understand, you're saying there is as much glucose in male semen as ther is in sugar?

That's correct", responded the Prof., going on to add statistical info. Raising her hand again, the girl asked, "Then why doesn't it taste sweet?"

After a stunned silence, the whole class burst out laughing, the poor girl's face turned bright red, and as she realized exactly what she had inadvertently said (or rather implied), she picked up her books without a word and walked out of class... and never returned. However, as she was going out the door, the Prof's reply was classic... Totally straight-faced he answered her question, "It doesn't taste sweet because the taste-buds for sweetness are on the tip of your tongue and not in the back of your throat."

A man is sitting next to a woman on a jet which is getting ready to take off.
Suddenly, the man sneezes. He unzips his pants and wipes the end of his penis off with his handkerchief. He zips up, and continues reading his magazine.

The woman cannot believe what she just saw. Then he sneezes again, unzips, pulls out his penis and wipes it off with a handkerchief. The woman says, "Excuse me sir, but that is disgusting and rude, and if you do it again, I am going to call the flight attendant and have you removed from this plane.

He says, "I am so sorry that I have offended you. I have this very rare, embarrassing physical handicap that causes me to orgasm every time I sneeze."

The woman, disarmed by the man's honesty, and somewhat embarrassed by her own callousness, says, with sympathy, "Oh you poor man, what are you taking for it?"
"Pepper," he answers.

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