Australian gave birth to a child of a foreign couple After her doctor in the clinic for the treatment of infertility during the so -called. extracorporeal fertilizer (ivf) He accidentally introduced an incorrect embryo. This was announced to the “human error”. TASR reports this according to Friday’s report Reuters.
Monash IVF is responsible for almost a quarter of IVF interventions in Australia. As she said, she learned in February that at her clinic in Brisbane The doctor introduced the woman’s wrong embryo. Extracorporeal fertilization was successful and They reported an incident with the wrong embryo as soon as they revealed it.
They came to the clinic after biological parents asked to move the remaining embryos to another clinic. “Instead of finding the expected number of embryos, another embryo for biological parents remained in the warehouse,” She reported the company in its statement, writes The Guardian. The clinic did not give the identity of the parents or their response to the event. However, she described the situation as worrying.
“We are all destroyed in Monash IVF and we want to apologize to all that it concerns,” The CEO Michael Knaap said in his statement. He added that this incident required additional audits that showed that this was an isolated case.
However, the BBC reported that the same clinic had paid $ 56 million last year to hundreds of patients whose The embryos were destroyed despite being viable. The latest incident, according to Reuters, has attracted attention to the industry, which until recently was largely self -regulated. He also raised concerns about security protocols at IVF clinics.
After publishing the event information, Monash IVF shares were also weakened, which fell by 35 percent, which represents their greatest decline from entering the stock exchange more than ten years ago. Monash IVF also has clinics in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
