Singapore fertility centre fined due to sperm mix-up
June 22nd, 2011 - 11:07 am ICT by IANSSingapore, June 22 (IANS) A medical facility in Singapore offering fertility procedures has been fined after a different person’s sperm was used in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) process, Channel NewsAsia reported.
Thomson Medical, the fertility centre, was fined 20,000 Singapore dollars (around $19,355), according to Xinhua.
The centre had processed at the same time two semen specimens inside one working space in a laboratory in January last year. It wrongly used another man’s sperm to impregnate one of its patients.
The couple involved was a Singaporean-Chinese woman and her Caucasian spouse. They decided to keep the child even though the husband’s sperm was not the one used in the procedure.
The health ministry has suspended all new assisted reproduction activities at the centre till November.
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