'Law required for test-tube babies'
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A fertility centre has celebrated the birth of 100 test-tube babies in Myanmar, but the health minister is warning that that legislation covering reproductive health is so antiquated that it lacks any regulations or guidelines for fertility clinics like t
Bahosi Fertility Centre staff said they were holding the party to celebrate a milestone: reaching 100 successful births of babies from in vitro fertilisation, so-called test-tube babies. The centre was established in 2006 and its first test-tube baby, May Lin Let Swe, was born the following year, centre staff said.
Health Minister Pe Thet Khin said there were no rules in Myanmar covering in vitro fertilisation, in which an embryo is fertilised outside a mother’s body.
“Internationally many problems arise over inheritance to children conceived in uncommon ways,” the minister said. “For that reason I would like to urge those concerned to write laws, bylaws, rules and regulations, and a code of conduct,” he said.
The world’s first test-tube baby was born in 1978 and there are about five million worldwide now. Up to 15 per cent of married couples cannot have children, staff centre said.
