Illegal outfit sold human eggs for 200,000 yuan
By Xu Chi |
October 18, 2012, Thursday
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HEALTH authorities in Shenzhen City have cracked down on an illegal human egg trading facility inside an abandoned nursing home, where agents collected eggs from young women and sold them for more than 200,000 (US$32,520) yuan each.
The nursing home had been divided into several sections with modern medical equipment worth over 10 million yuan, according to Southern Metropolis Daily.
Unlicensed doctors collected eggs, fertilized them and transplanted them into women customers with fertility problems, the report said.
Young women selling their eggs could earn 20,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan. There were standards for egg "donors," such as being a university graduate, born after 1985, good-looking, taller than 1.65 meters and in good health. Candidates who met the largest number of the requirements were paid up to 50,000 yuan for each egg, the newspaper said.
Once chosen, the young women went through surgery to stimulate their ovulation and doctors would collect eggs during the process.
Buyers of the eggs, usually infertile women, would be asked to let their husband give sperm to fertilize the eggs and the fertilized ones would be transplanted into the women, the newspaper said.
But the process can endanger egg donors as the unlicensed surgery may damage their health, authorities said. The selling of eggs is banned by Chinese laws. The facility was shut by Shenzhen authorities on Tuesday, but the case is still under investigation.
The nursing home had been divided into several sections with modern medical equipment worth over 10 million yuan, according to Southern Metropolis Daily.
Unlicensed doctors collected eggs, fertilized them and transplanted them into women customers with fertility problems, the report said.
Young women selling their eggs could earn 20,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan. There were standards for egg "donors," such as being a university graduate, born after 1985, good-looking, taller than 1.65 meters and in good health. Candidates who met the largest number of the requirements were paid up to 50,000 yuan for each egg, the newspaper said.
Once chosen, the young women went through surgery to stimulate their ovulation and doctors would collect eggs during the process.
Buyers of the eggs, usually infertile women, would be asked to let their husband give sperm to fertilize the eggs and the fertilized ones would be transplanted into the women, the newspaper said.
But the process can endanger egg donors as the unlicensed surgery may damage their health, authorities said. The selling of eggs is banned by Chinese laws. The facility was shut by Shenzhen authorities on Tuesday, but the case is still under investigation.
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