Three women have IVF embryos destroyed after doctors fertilize them with wrong men's sperm
In the UK, it appears that an IVF clinic has fertilized three women's eggs with the wrong men's sperm. Ouch, is all that I can say! Thankfully, these embryos were not implanted, and the mistake was discovered before that occurred.
As stated in the UK publication Mail Online:
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"In this case, the mistake was spotted within a few hours of the wrong sperm being put into each dish at Guy's Hospital in South-East London. The couples were told immediately.
Two years ago a watchdog concluded that the Assisted Conception Unit at Guy's was carrying out procedures it described as 'risky'. A report from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority warned that embryologists at the hospital were running the risk of confusing sperm samples from different men by preparing them in the same container.
Yesterday Sue Avery, a former chairman of the Association of Clinical Embryologists, described the latest revelation as 'very serious'."
In addition, "Josephine Quintavalle, from the campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said yesterday: 'It is shocking that this can happen. These mistakes should be very hard to make - but it seems that they are in fact made rather easily.
'It is not as if the people who deal with the eggs and sperm are on a production line, churning out hundreds of embryos a day.
'They are dealing with very few and each one is incredibly important."
