A series of violations in the rules fertility have been done in Netherlands With the risk of having relationships, without knowing, people who are relatives being more than visible.
According to official data at least 85 sperm donors in the Netherlands have acquired over 25 children eachas a new registration system has shown that fertility clinics have violated the applicable sperm donation rules for decades.
The Dutch National Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (NVOG) announced that some clinics had deliberately used batch of sperm more than 25 times, exchanged sperm without the necessary bureaucracy or knowledge of donors and They allowed the same donors to donate sperm to many clinics.
“The number of so -called ‘mass donors’ should be zero,” gynecologist Marik Senenberg said on the Nieuwsuur television show. “On behalf of the whole profession, we want to apologize. We didn’t do things as they should. “
As the Guardian reports, a law aimed at reducing the risk Donors to become fathers of more than 25 children in the Netherlands since 1992, But it has proved to be difficult to apply due to the rigor of the privacy law.
The threshold was reduced to 12 in 2018, but the means for its imposition – a nationalist register of donors and mothers with a system of codes that ensures that sperm from the same donor cannot be used in more than 12 arrests – It came into force, retroactively, just in April.
“As a result, we now know, for the first time, the exact number of children per donor,” Sennenberg said. Since 2004, when the donors’ right to anonymity was abolished, the data showed that there were at least 85 “mass donors” (defined as at least 25 arrests) in the Netherlands, he said. At least 85 donors exceeded the old ceiling, with several having 50 to 75 children, While there were also cases of doctors who used their own sperm, such as Jan Carbatt, who illegally had at least 81 children.
Most were biological father between 26 and 40 children, Senenberg said, though many had between 50 and 75. Among them were at least 10 fertility doctorsincluding Jan Karbaat, who illegally had at least 81 children in his clinic.
The most “productive” donor is Jonathan Jacob Meyer, who is known for the Netflix The Man with 1,000 Kids documentary. Meyer has at least 550 children worldwide, of which more than 100 in the Netherlands.
Van der Mir, of Stichting Donorkind, an institution that helps children identify their fathers, said the findings are a “medical disaster”. The data indicates that there are probably at least 3,000 children in the Netherlands with 25 or more heterosexual brothers and sisters, he said.
“When they grow up and begin to make an appointment, they need to do DNA tests to ensure that they do not have an affinity with their partner,” Van der Mir was warned.
He said that it is important to give all those involved all available information. NVOG urged mothers, donors and children to communicate with their fertility clinics. The Dutch Ministry of Health said he would inform Members of the findings this week.