Hyderabad Fertility Centres Face Scrutiny After Police Rescue 29 Women

Telangana police raided three premises in Hyderabad during the last week of October and rescued 29 women from six states. The women had been kept in confinement for harvesting their oocytes, or eggs. The crackdown has put fertility centres under scrutiny over alleged illegal egg harvesting and trafficking, and 13 notices were issued over regulatory violations. The centres provide procedures including intrauterine insemination, in-vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. They also performed ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval and embryo transfer. Packages for assisted reproductive technology services range from ₹2.5 lakh to ₹50 lakh.