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Everyone knows someone left childless and never told why.
Jananam was founded in Karur in 2008 by Dr Vani Sundarapandian, MD, DGO, FRCOG (UK), and has been a single-speciality fertility centre in Chennai since 2013. 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
1940s
Dr 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.
1960
Dr P S Logambal, Jayalakshmi's younger sister, was one of the first women to practise medicine in Karur and has been a gynaecologist there since 1960. She delivered the town's babies for the next six decades. Her daughter is Dr Vani Sundarapandian.
A promise
Dr 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.
2008
Dr Vani and her husband Dr Selva built a hospital in Karur and named it for her mother. Jananam started inside it. The hospital was later leased to Apollo and is known in Karur as Apollo Loga Hospital.
2013
A single-speciality centre in a quiet street in Kazura Garden, Neelankarai, with its own clean-room embryology lab and everything under one roof.
How IVF works at Jananam
Thiruporur clinic opened in January 2026
Consultations, scans and follow-ups closer to home for families along OMR, led by Dr Mangalam Raman. Procedures stay at the Neelankarai lab.
Beyond Chennai
Couples 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.
Alongside
Dr Selva is a neonatal intensivist. Between the three of them the family covers the whole of it: why a child does not come, the birth itself, and the first days after.
Today
4.9 from 1,400+ 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.
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.
The clinic is clean, well-organized, and provides excellent care to patients. We truly appreciate all the support we received and highly recommend Jananam Fertility Centre and Dr. Vani to couples seeking fertility treatment.
The doctors and staff were very supportive professional and gave clarity on each and every doubts I had .The care and guidance we received made our journey so comfortable. I strongly recommend to everyone.
I would highly recommend Jananam.The billing system is very transparent and flexible. There is no hidden cost.
Dr Vani Sundarapandian, MD, DGO, FRCOG (UK), founded Jananam in 2008 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 refer you to your doctor 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.
The questions people don't ask with their partner sitting beside them, answered by Dr Vani Sundarapandian.
Janvi, Jananam's companion for fertility treatment, replies straight away.
