Hebrew media reported on Wednesday that the parents of a baby born from a wrongly implanted embryo would sue the hospital responsible for the mixup for NIS 100 million ($27,600,000).
Channel 12 reported that the lawsuit will focus on the neglect and inefficiency of the fertility clinic at Asuta Hospital in Rishon LeZion, and the heartbreak the family suffered during this difficult ordeal.
The baby girl was born in late October, shortly after a media uproar following revelations that the embryo had been implanted in the wrong in-vitro fertilization (IVF) patient.
The Ministry of Health initially tried to find the baby’s biological parents, but a couple thought most likely to be the parents refused tests, with officials announcing in November that they would suspend the search. Will stop
Last week, the Supreme Court Settle Do not allow further genetic testing for six other potential couples to determine if they are the biological parents of the child.
According to the decision, the judges determined that there was little likelihood that the six couples could be biological parents, and that the birth mother and her husband had a stronger legal claim to the child.
Illustrative image: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann via iStock by Getty Images)
Theoretically, test results could result in the removal of the child from the parenting couple. They have vowed to fight any attempt to remove the infant from their custody.
As Channel 12 reports, the birth parents were due to file a lawsuit against Asuta Hospital in December, but lawyers preferred to delay action until the legal action surrounding the trial was settled.
The Ministry of Health considered closing the IVF unit in Asuta after the error but finally decided Do not do this However, it demanded that the department reduce its operations by 50 per cent – from 10,000 fertilization treatments a year to 5,000.
