India will soon have a law to regulate the mushrooming test tube baby centres run by private medical practitioners, health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said in New Delhi on Thursday.
Test tube baby centre, medically known as in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres, help infertile couples to conceive and have a baby.
The private IVF centres are growing like anything. They are unregulated and some of them are illegal as well. Soon, we will bring a law to regulate them," Ramadoss said.
He was speaking at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after inaugurating the first government-run IVF centre there.
"The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has already submitted a set of guidelines and we are going to frame it and move it to the cabinet. It would be a comprehensive law," the minister added.
He said nearly eight per cent of couples in India suffer from infertility and need assisted reproductive techniques to conceive.
Major reasons for infertility in males are decreased sperm counts and abnormal sperms, and for females it is the blocked fallopian tubes, inability to ovulate and abnormalities in the genital tract are the reasons behind infertility.
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