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The police and the Ministry of Health announced this morning (Monday) that they opened an investigation into the suspicion of importing fertilized eggs from Georgia that carried the genetic disease hemophilia B, after learning of two Israeli patients in whom the infected eggs were implanted and at least one baby was born with a deformity.
It is estimated that other women were injured in the affair.
Gali (pseudonym), who is in her fifth month of pregnancy through the clinic, told Walla!: "I'm really anxious and don't know who to turn to. The offices and their secretaries don't answer either, now the Ministry of Health doesn't answer either and refers me to the police. I would have expected them to at least publish dates of the tainted donation that was made so that it could make it easier for other women who did on other dates."
"I have no confidence in them," Gali added.
"I do all the tests independently in the hope that everything is fine. The donation cost me a lot of money, the various tests will also cost. It's really hard mentally to be in the fifth month of a pregnancy that came after years of treatments and to find out even after you got pregnant that it's really not safe."
Gali said that even if you do an extended amniotic fluid genetic screening test now, it will take a few weeks for answers to come.
"Who will bear the mental burden for that?" she said.
On the other hand, Naama (pseudonym), who was treated at the clinic where they allegedly imported the eggs carrying the genetic disease hemophilia, told Walla!
Because in her opinion it is a human error, because the clinic is working under crazy pressure due to the high demand, this after the war in Ukraine prevented egg donation in the same format in the past.
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"From what I understood, they made a mistake because they didn't check," said Naama, and said that about two months ago she heard about a girl who received a message from the clinic that there was a chance that her egg carried a genetic problem.
"I don't know if this is the truth, but I understood that the girl wanted the egg even after they informed her that there was a problem. For their part, they told her that it would be safest to take a blood test to detect the genetic disease and that they don't take responsibility for it, she probably didn't do it. No I knew there was someone who had already given birth to a baby with an infected egg."
Naama says that she leads a healthy lifestyle and underwent medical tests, but after she was unable to conceive using lab-fertilized embryos, she began to suspect that something was wrong.
"The morning after the affair was published, I received a call from my attending physician, who said that he was not ready to accept embryos from the same clinic and that I would have to change companies."
Regarding the allegations against the clinic, she said: "I trust the company, they are the oldest. They have many successes. All the doctors buy from brokerage companies, everyone knows everyone. They have made many enemies over the years. I think the inspection should be more comprehensive and strict, but I don't I know all the details and it's hard for me to have an opinion one way or the other."
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