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The Ministry of Health issues the Official Dispatch No. 3704/BYT-BM-TE on strengthening prevention of law violations on IVF and AS.
Accordingly, in recent times, the situation of commercial surrogacy, prenatal sex selection tends to be complicated. Some newspapers constantly publish articles about surrogacy networks (commercial surrogacy), sperm/egg/embryo trading that are being investigated and handled.
Therefore, in this Official Dispatch, the Ministry of Health directs to ensure the kinship relationship between the surrogate mother and the intended parent, besides the paper confirmed by the Commune-level People’s Committee, hospitals may request the family for other related papers to serve the purpose of comparison.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health encourages establishments to invest and use software to manage cases of sperm/ovum/embryo donation or receipt, in vitro fertilization (IVF), altruistic surrogacy (AS).
Especially, patients and gametes are identified not only by personal papers but also by modern biometric identification techniques such as face photography, fingerprints, irises in order to prevent mistakes or exchanges due to the use of fake documents. Semen and blood samples should be stored for later comparisons.
Besides, the Ministry of Health also Encouraging establishments to sign contracts with law firms on legal consultancy, in which terms to bind responsibilities for legal consultancy must be fully included.
This Official Dispatch is issued on July 12, 2022.
