Five fertility centre mgmts appear before Women’s Commission
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The Commission is likely to scrutinise the explanations and available evidence before deciding on further action and issuing directions to the authorities concerned. The investigation aims to establish whether women's health, dignity and reproductive rights were compromised.
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Five fertility centre mgmts appear before Women’s Commission
Hyderabad: As many as five fertility centre managements appeared before the State Commission for Women on Monday and submitted reports on human egg collection details. Subsequently, the Commission directed the district authorities to submit details of the legal proceedings and permissions required to operate fertility centres. At least five fertility centre representatives -- Indira IVF Centre, Narmada Fertility Centre, Oasis Fertility Centre, Sadguru ART Centre and Padmaja Fertility Centre representatives visited the State Women Commission and submitted the reports where and how they obtained human egg from women and other details.
By taking suo motu, the Women Commission served notices to several fertility centres for reportedly indulging in collecting of human eggs from women brought from different states to the city. Days after the Commission served notices, the managements of five fertility centres submitted K sheets of patients, women hired with consent to collect eggs, legal proceedings, licenses issued by authorised departments.
The Commission said that an inquiry will examine whether the centres violated the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021, which mandates written consent from egg donors, medical safeguards and compliance with prescribed limits on egg retrieval.
The Commission is likely to scrutinise the explanations and available evidence before deciding on further action and issuing directions to the authorities concerned. The investigation aims to establish whether women's health, dignity and reproductive rights were compromised.
Meanwhile, the police shifted 30 women, who already donated their eggs to government hospitals where a team of doctors examined them and are likely to submit a comprehensive report to the Malkajgiri police, who are probing the case .
Initially, the Malkajgiri police registered cases and conducted searches at different women's hostels in Begumpet, Saroornagar, LB Nagar and other places and found some middlemen indulged in illegal activity by bringing women from different states and put them in women hostels where the fertility centre staff visit such hostels to collect human eggs by paying off huge amount.
