+91 89399 94244WhatsApp usTHE JANANAM STANDARD
Everyone has heard of a clinic that kept a couple in a loop. These promises are how we make sure it never happens here.
The Jananam Standard is how every Jananam doctor and centre works: unhurried consultations, an honest plan for when to stop, both partners checked first, add-ons only when they earn it, one specialist throughout, and fertility care only.
Your first consultation is long enough to tell your whole story, and ask every question you came with. The team reads your reports before you arrive, so the time is spent on you, not on catching up.
Right from our first visit, we found that Dr. Vani and her team were up to date on our case.
Patient from USA · Practo
Before your first cycle we agree, together, what would make us change plan, and when we would honestly recommend stopping. It is the hardest conversation in fertility care, so we have it at the start, when nobody is under pressure. You leave with it in writing: a Stopping Conversation card, signed by your doctor and both of you, before cycle one.
They won't put you in a loop and charge unnecessarily.
Ankita P. · Google
Male factors are involved in about half of cases. So no plan is made until both of you have been assessed: semen analysis, ovarian reserve and a tubes check belong in the first round.
Semen analysis in the first round, every time.
Jananam protocol
Extra tests and lab techniques are offered only where the evidence supports them for your situation. When the evidence changes, so do we.
We have used ERA in more than 750 patients in the past, but in our experience it did not improve live birth rates sufficiently for us to continue recommending it.
Dr Vani Sundarapandian, Founder and Medical Director
The doctor who plans your treatment is the one who scans you, collects your eggs and transfers your embryo. The same nurses follow your case throughout.
Each and every steps were observed & performed by the main doctor, Dr. Vani mam itself.
Dhakshnamoorthy J. · Google
Jananam has been a single-speciality fertility centre since 2013. No maternity ward, no general surgery: every doctor, nurse and embryologist here does one thing.
ART Level 2 registered · ISAR · clean-room embryology lab
Standards
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You get a package price in writing before treatment begins, from our financial counsellor, along with EMI options if you want them. Here is what decides the number.
EMI available: explained before you commit.
Chosen for your case, never a standard bundle.
Set by your hormone levels and response.
ICSI, freezing and extended culture only when needed.
When ICSI helps, and when it doesn'tAgreed up front, with a point to review.
Cost & EMI guideNo honest clinic can promise it.
Only if the evidence says so.
Take it home, talk it over.
Your specialist is your specialist.
How to choose a fertility clinic in Chennai: ask every clinic the same 7 questions, and ask for the answers in writing. Success rates are hard to check and easy to dress up. How a clinic works is not.
The same specialist, start to finish.
Always: both partners first, with a semen analysis in the first round.
Yes: a package price, in writing, before treatment begins.
Only ones with evidence behind them. We stopped recommending ERA after using it in more than 750 patients.
We agree this before cycle one, in writing, signed by your doctor and both of you.
Yes, it is on site: a clean-room lab at Neelankarai. Your embryos never leave the building.
Yes: ART Level 2 registered. ART/CHE/121/2023
SHARETEXT
7 questions to ask any fertility clinic in Chennai before you start: 1. Who will I see at every visit, from the first scan to embryo transfer? 2. Will you test both partners before recommending any treatment? 3. Can I have the full price in writing before we start? 4. Which add-ons do you recommend, and what is the evidence for each? 5. When would you advise us to change plan, pause or stop? 6. Is the embryology lab on site? 7. Is the centre ART-registered, and at what level? From jananamfertility.com/the-jananam-standard/
We found Dr Vani to be straightforward about the course of treatment we should take without mincing words or making false promises.
The procedure, the cost and everything is so transparent & not money minded at all.
She prescribes only the very necessary investigations and medications, maintaining high standards and ethics.
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Choose on how a clinic works, not on the rate it advertises: ask who you will see at every visit, whether both partners are tested first, and whether the price is in writing before you start. Ask the same 7 questions at every clinic you visit and compare the written answers. Ours are in the Jananam Standard on this page.
No, Jananam does not publish a clinic-wide IVF, IUI or TESA success rate, because that number depends more on which patients a clinic accepts than on the care. Instead, at your first consultation Dr Vani's team works out your own chances from age, diagnosis, ovarian reserve and the semen analysis, and tells you plainly, including when treatment is unlikely to help, as the ART (Regulation) Act 2021 expects. If any clinic quotes a success rate in Chennai, ask whether it counts live births or pregnancies, per cycle or per patient, and which ages it covers.
We quote a package price in writing before you start, and every test or treatment we suggest has a medical reason. Patients often mention there were no hidden charges.
Yes, EMI options are available. Our financial counsellor explains them before you commit, so you know the monthly cost before treatment starts.
Jananam's main hospital is in Neelankarai, just off East Coast Road (ECR). If you live along OMR, consultations and scans can happen at Jananam Thiruporur. Egg collection, embryo transfer and all lab work happen at Neelankarai.
Yes: most couples start with a video consultation, then do tests at home where possible. You travel to Chennai only for the part that needs you here.
It can be, and a second opinion is how you find out: it looks at what happened, not just what's next. Sometimes the honest answer is a different plan, or stopping. The most common mistake we see is waiting too long to ask.
WHY THIS STANDARD EXISTS
Dr Vani's Periamma, Jayalakshmi, could not have a child when treatment barely existed, and she carried that for the rest of her life. The unhurried consultations, the prices quoted upfront and the stopping conversation are what Dr Vani wishes someone could have given her.
Read our storyIt exists for the one thing she wanted and never had.
Dr Vani Sundarapandian, MD, DGO, FRCOG (UK) · Founder
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