CHA Healthcare Acquires Biggest Fertility Center in Western Australia

CHA Healthcare, an affiliate of CHA Biotech, has now acquired Fertility Specialists of Western Australia (FSWA), the biggest fertility center in the region, through City Fertility, which a fertility center operated by the CHA Healthcare.

FSWA is a fertility institution established in 2006 and also has two fertility center in the region of Perth, the capital of Western Australia and the fourth biggest city in Australia. FSWA is performing over 1,200 in the vitro fertilization procedure per annum, accounting for around 30 percent of all procedures of IVF in Perth.

CHA Healthcare entered the infertility treatment market of Australia acquiring City Fertility, which have seven infertility centers in the year 2018. With the recent acquisition of FSWA, CHA Healthcare has 18 infertility centers in Australia.

The company has also dispatched medical workers and researchers from CHA Hospital to Australia. The company is expanding its position in the fertility treatment market of Australia by applying company’s advanced technology and systems.

In 2021, fertility centers of CHS Healthcare had completed around 7,000 IVF procedures aiming to conduct over 10,000 IVF procedures every year by 2026. According to CHS Healthcare, the number of couples experiencing infertility in Australia is increasing as first childbirth age increases of women.

One in nine couples of childbearing age in Australia has infertility, and around 4.9 percent of the total 305,832 births in 2-19 had been through IVF. The government of Australia also supports infertility treatment through the Medicare program to respond to the decreasing birth rate.