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Guangdong probes surrogacy case after octuplets were born
By Wang Qingchu |
December 20, 2011, Tuesday
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HEALTH authorities in south China's Guangdong Province have started to investigate a surrogacy agency and a hospital which helped a couple conceive eight test-tube babies.
The agency will be punished as China has banned surrogacy since 2003. Despite the ban, there is a thriving black market in which wealthy infertile families hire egg donors or surrogate mothers.
The couple chose in vitro fertilization to conceive babies. In order to ensure a high success rate, they transferred eight embryos into the uterus of the wife and two surrogate mothers. All eight embryos survived and the octuplets were born in October, Guangzhou Daily reported today.
An official with the Guangdong Province Health Bureau warned people not to receive fertility treatment in unlicensed hospitals as the procedure is highly risky, according to the report.
He said mothers with multiple pregnancies due to fertility treatment should reduce fetuses as multiple births often lead to risky preterm births and other complications.
The agency will be punished as China has banned surrogacy since 2003. Despite the ban, there is a thriving black market in which wealthy infertile families hire egg donors or surrogate mothers.
The couple chose in vitro fertilization to conceive babies. In order to ensure a high success rate, they transferred eight embryos into the uterus of the wife and two surrogate mothers. All eight embryos survived and the octuplets were born in October, Guangzhou Daily reported today.
An official with the Guangdong Province Health Bureau warned people not to receive fertility treatment in unlicensed hospitals as the procedure is highly risky, according to the report.
He said mothers with multiple pregnancies due to fertility treatment should reduce fetuses as multiple births often lead to risky preterm births and other complications.
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