C-sections done in surrogate pregnancies before 7 months
By Shreejana Shrestha,
Republica [Nepal]
| 04. 10. 2016
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KATHMANDU, April 11: While the government has already decided the fate of surrogacy babies born or conceived before the Supreme Court (SC) halted surrogacy services in this country; hospital here are now adopting the risky option of pre-mature caesarean sections.
Hospitals providing surrogacy services to foreign couples are handing over to them babies delivered before they are due, it is learnt. These hospitals are found to be conducting caesarean sections to deliver the babies less than seven months after conception.
In one recent instance, an Australian couple had In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) carried out in an Indian surrogate mother on July 19, 2015. Grande City Clinic at Jamal, one of the leading surrogacy service providers in Kathmandu, delivered twin babies through c-section on January 28, 2016, which was exactly six months and nine days after the date of conception.
Likewise, another Australian couple hired an Indian surrogate mother for IVF on August 2, 2015 and the baby was delivered by the same hospital through c-section in the seventh month of pregnancy. There are many instances where such babies...
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