Health Minister closes in-vitro fertility program
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Health Minister Konstanty Radziwiłł said that the state-financed in-vitro fertility program will be valid until mid-2016, despite the fact that the outgoing Minister of Health, Marian Zembala, prolonged it until 2019 just a month ago.
"The program will be continued up to mid-2016 and no longer," Radziwiłł said at a sitting of the parliamentary health commission.
In line with the bill adopted this summer, married people, as well as those living together, have been able to use in-vitro to have a baby. The procedure may be utilized if other possible treatments, lasting at least 12 months, are unsuccessful. Furthermore, six egg cells may be fertilized. The bill also enables embryo donation, but forbids using them for purposes other than in-vitro fertilization.
