+91 89399 94244WhatsApp usOUR STORY · SINCE 2013
Everyone knows someone left childless and never told why.
Jananam Fertility Centre is a single-speciality fertility centre in Chennai, founded in 2013 by Dr Vani Sundarapandian, MD, DGO, FRCOG (UK). Our main hospital and IVF lab are in Neelankarai, with a clinic in Thiruporur.
Our name means birth. It is a reminder of what every consultation, scan and plan here is for, and of the woman who inspired it.
THE STORY
01Dr Vani's aunt, her mother's older sister, married a doctor in the 1940s and never had a child of her own. Investigations were rare then and treatment largely inadequate. More than once she asked her younger sister, then a medical student, if she could adopt her first child. That child was Dr Vani. Jayalakshmi died of blood cancer at 34, before Dr Vani was born.
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02Dr Vani decided young that she would build a fertility centre in her aunt's memory. She trained in obstetrics and gynaecology and reproductive medicine in India, the UK and Australia, and practised in the UK before coming home.
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A promise
03A single-speciality centre in a quiet street in Kazura Garden, Neelankarai, with its own clean-room embryology lab and everything under one roof.
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2013
04Consultations, scans and follow-ups closer to home for families along OMR, led by Dr Mangalam Raman. Procedures stay at the Neelankarai lab.
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[CONFIRM: year the Thiruporur clinic opened]
05Couples travel from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Gulf and the US. Treatment starts with a video consultation, and most tests can be done closer to home.
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Beyond Chennai
064.9 from 1,210 Google reviews, an ART Level 2 registered centre, and the same promise written into the Jananam Standard, so it doesn't depend on any one person.
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Today
A LETTER FROM OUR FOUNDER
The photograph is of Jayalakshmi, my mother's older sister. She married in the 1940s, to a doctor, and never had a child of her own.
Fertility care then was nothing like it is today: investigations were rare, treatment was largely inadequate, and in India, childlessness was treated as a disgrace rather than a medical condition. She carried that weight for the rest of her life, and it brought on serious depression.
More than once, she asked my mother, her younger sister and then a medical student, whether she could adopt my mother's first child. That child was me. My aunt never lived to meet me. She died of blood cancer at 34.
I started Jananam because of her. It exists for the one thing she wanted and never had.
The unhurried consultations we run here, the prices we quote upfront, and the conversation we now have with every patient before their first cycle about when we'll recommend stopping, all of it is what I wish someone could have given her.
Vani
Dr Vani Sundarapandian, MD, DGO, FRCOG (UK) · Founder and Medical Director
Send this letter to someone who needs itWHAT IT BECAME
Six promises, written down so every doctor and every centre keeps them, not just the founder.
IVF lab, egg collection, embryo transfer, consultations, scans.
Consultations, scans, tests and follow-ups.
You will not see any fancy billboards or advertisements about this clinic because Jananam is known for their work and results and not the branding.
It felt less like a medical facility and more like a place of hope.
I have saw many fertility center, but Jananam was the only place I can trust.
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Dr Vani Sundarapandian, MD, DGO, FRCOG (UK), founded Jananam in 2013 and is its Medical Director. She has spent 20 years exclusively in reproductive medicine and practised in the UK before returning to Chennai.
Jananam (ஜனனம்) means birth, which is why our line is 'Where life begins.' It is a reminder of what every consultation, scan and plan here is for.
Jananam is a single-speciality fertility centre with a main hospital and IVF lab in Neelankarai, and a clinic in Thiruporur. Egg collection, embryo transfer and all lab work happen at Neelankarai.
No, Jananam is a fertility-only centre and has no maternity ward or delivery unit. After a positive pregnancy test we monitor the early weeks, then [CONFIRM: referral practice, e.g. at what week and to which obstetrician or hospital] for the rest of your pregnancy and the birth.
No. Both Jananam centres are in Chennai: the main hospital and IVF lab in Neelankarai, and a clinic in Thiruporur. Couples from other countries start with a video consultation and do most tests where they live.
Most couples come to us through reviews and referrals. We'd rather spend on the lab than on billboards.
Jananam doesn't publish a clinic-wide success rate because that figure reflects which patients a clinic accepts more than the care you will get. What helps you is your own prognosis. At your first consultation we go through your age, diagnosis, ovarian reserve and your partner's semen analysis, and tell you the realistic range, including when treatment is unlikely to help.
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