Contrary to the belief that frequent sex would result in infertility, a research conducted by IVF Centre in Australia has revealed that daily sex would not hamper impregnation, rather it would help increase the chances of becoming pregnant.

Citing this finding, Dr T Kamaraj and Dr Jeyarani Kamaraj, directors of Aakash Fertility Centre and Hospital, told mediapersons in Chennai yesterday that the hospital, with an aim to educate, train the medical fraternity on fertility and pregnancy, was organising a three-day Ferticon - 2009 beginning today at Hotel Green Park, Vadapalani.

Kamaraj said that the increase in the infertility problem among married couples in the country was an alarming 15 per cent. This led to family, psychological and physiological problems among the couples, he said adding: ‘Unfortunately many such couples, from illiterate to the educated and well off, lured by advertisements, prefer to go to a clinics which were invariably run by quacks.

Only when they realise the ineffectiveness of such treatments they turn to qualified doctors.’ It is here that the conference would throw light - to avoid such dreadful situations by imparting training to young doctors on the modern methods for fertilisation and protection of pregnant women and to ensure availability of such advanced methods to the rural masses.

At the conference, Dr Chakravarthy who was instrumental in the efforts to produce the first test tube baby in the country and second in the world would be given the Lifetime Achievement Award by Principal Health Secretary V K Subburaj.

The conference would also deliberate on artificial semen produced in England recently and educate mothers on high risk pregnancies.