China earthquake: IVF offered for grieving parents
(wz) China will reverse sterilisation procedures and offer in-vitro fertilisation for parents who lost their only children in the Sichuan earthquake.
The scheme is part of a relaxation of China’s strict one-child policy for victims of the May 12 disaster, Xinhua, the state news agency, reported.
Medical teams will be deployed into the affected region and will counsel parents and offer to help them start a new family, said Zhang Shikun, director of the science and technology bureau of the National Population and Family Planning Commission.
“The team, comprised of experts on child-bearing, will conduct surgery in the quake-hit areas to provide technological support for those wanting to give birth to another,” Mr Zhang said.
Operations to reverse sterilisation procedures would be performed and artificial reproduction technology offered.
Under the one-child policy, parents who lose a child or have a disabled child are allowed to have a second baby. more…
From: »The Daily Telegraph«