According to the UMC Utrecht is a small chance that a woman is pregnant from the wrong man, but it can not be excluded. Half of the women involved has become pregnant or even give birth. The hospital has reported to the Health care Inspection and has the engaged couples to be informed. With the set is a personal interview is scheduled and looking at what opportunities there are now.
Wrong eyedropper tool
One laboratory assistant used the wrong pipette, says a spokesman of UMC Utrecht. There was a pipette should be used, in which no seed of another man can be left behind.
In the used pipette could do that. A lab assistant noticed this when he was an egg wanted to fertilize, and there is already sperm were present, while he had not been caught. “It is established that an other sperm in the pipette. When we have a survey run. “There looked no-one with the employee, says the spokesman. “Most of the acts that we do are always by a second employee verified. In this case, that didn’t happen."
Procedure
The UMC Utrecht is still investigating why there was a deviation from the ordinary procedure. The wrong procedure was from mid april 2015 to mid-november 2016 applied. The ivf laboratory has also embryos frozen. Also that may have been fertilized by the wrong sperm. There will now be discussed with the involved set what to do with these embryos must be done.
Work limited
The UMC Utrecht has, for now, the work in the laboratory is limited to the procedure to better follow. Only treatments whose reliability can be guaranteed, to be then resumed.
The Health care Inspectorate monitors the situation closely, but wants, as long as the research is not substantively respond.
Association shocked
Association for people with fertility problems, Freya, shocked responded to the error in the ivf laboratory. The organization, however, has all the confidence in the current protocols in the Netherlands and considers the issue as an incident. The spokeswoman stressed that the Dutch protocols around ivf, very conscientious and reliable. The error at the UMC Utrecht would be caused because of those procedures is waived. “It is precisely because those rules are so strict, this is so hard. We consider it as an incident, but it is terrible for the couples this affects. This telephone call you do not want to get out of the hospital."
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