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IVF is “big business” and experts are concerned about conflicts of interest between profit-making and helping families have children.
Monash IVF’s second embryo bungle has sparked renewed scrutiny on the IVF industry as a whole amid calls for national regulation.
On Friday, state and federal health ministers agreed to a three-month review of the need for a federal scheme.
Monash IVF’s chief executive officer, Michael Knapp, stepped down this week after the second mistake the company revealed this year.
In April, Monash IVF revealed a woman had given birth to a stranger’s child after being implanted with the wrong embryo in a Queensland clinic. This week, it admitted that a woman had been implanted with her own embryo instead of her partner’s in a Victorian clinic.
The federal health minister, Mark Butler, said IVF “delivers joy to thousands of families” but that some were losing confidence in the system.
“We need to deal with some of the gaps in regulations, some of the lack of transparency that I think we now know is in this sector,” he said.
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