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Blunders at IVF clinics double
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Updated at: 1302 PST, Sunday, April 25, 2010
LONDON: Errors at fertility clinics almost doubled in 12 months, it has been revealed.
The number of mistakes at IVF centres in England and Wales rose from 182 in 2007/8 to 334 in 2008/9.
Blunders included embryos being lost or implanted in the wrong woman, and eggs being fertilised with another man's sperm.
The figures from Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFEA), the IVF regulatory body, were obtained by BBC Radio Five Live's Donal MacIntyre show.
The HFEA said the errors represented less than 1% of more than 50,000 IVF cycles carried out.
One couple were told by the University Hospital of Wales's IVF clinic that their last remaining embryos had been lost during treatment.
The pair, identified only as Clare and Gareth, had been trying for a baby for eight years.
Clare told the BBC: "I was sat there, gowned up, waiting to go in and have a transfer.
"They said you've got one embryo remaining, the other two embryos have gone missing.
"They said in the next sentence I can assure you they haven't gone into anyone else. Those were two potential babies."
LONDON: Errors at fertility clinics almost doubled in 12 months, it has been revealed.
The number of mistakes at IVF centres in England and Wales rose from 182 in 2007/8 to 334 in 2008/9.
Blunders included embryos being lost or implanted in the wrong woman, and eggs being fertilised with another man's sperm.
The figures from Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFEA), the IVF regulatory body, were obtained by BBC Radio Five Live's Donal MacIntyre show.
The HFEA said the errors represented less than 1% of more than 50,000 IVF cycles carried out.
One couple were told by the University Hospital of Wales's IVF clinic that their last remaining embryos had been lost during treatment.
The pair, identified only as Clare and Gareth, had been trying for a baby for eight years.
Clare told the BBC: "I was sat there, gowned up, waiting to go in and have a transfer.
"They said you've got one embryo remaining, the other two embryos have gone missing.
"They said in the next sentence I can assure you they haven't gone into anyone else. Those were two potential babies."
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