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"I received five embryos in December, two weeks ago I was supposed to return them to the uterus," said Lior (pseudonym), one of the patients at the clinic who is at the center of the case of importing the infected eggs from Georgia, in which a senior doctor who is the owner of an in vitro fertilization clinic and a laboratory manager in one of my homes were arrested The patients in the center of the country.
"My doctor called and told me that they canceled the return because the Ministry of Health issued a directive that it is not possible to make a return from this laboratory because of some genetic carrier," says Lior.
"I believe that they knew about it and that the money was right in front of their eyes. Didn't they know that an investigation had been opened? Why didn't we inform the patients?"
According to Lior, she spoke with the professor allegedly from the affair that deceived her, and told her that he does not work with the hospital and that the Ministry of Health is just creating difficulties.
"He said that there is some minor issue of carriers that he needs to resolve with the Ministry of Health," she continued.
"He told me that there was no problem and that he would fly me to Batumi at his own expense, and that he would transfer the embryos and everything at his own expense. He was nice and quite reassured me."
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"When I spoke with the person I work with, she said they will do whatever I need, but I only have to sign a document in front of the hospital that I release responsibility for what happens if I am pregnant. I was surprised and she said it was because the Ministry of Health does not approve and it is something insignificant," she added.
In retrospect, she says that she thanks the hospital that thanks to them she did not return the embryos to the womb.
"I have 5 fetuses that I do not intend to use even if the Ministry of Health has already notified all the victims. I have no credibility in this company anymore, nothing. They made me feel that I should trust them and that it is something minor. It is a terrible injustice for us, we women who have gone through The age of 40 and the subject is so sensitive for us because we still dream of becoming mothers for the first time or having more children. This is unforgivable."
"I bought eggs from the clinic and also paid for a healthy donor. I also did not receive the eggs according to their commitment and when I did, it turned out that the donor was a carrier of cystic fibrosis (a genetic disease)," said Neta (pseudonym).
"They at the clinic pressured me not to miss a round, and after genetic counseling I returned these embryos. Thank God I wasn't accepted. When I applied to receive a supplement, they said they prepared more embryos for me from the same donor and ran out of the sperm doses I ordered for the process."
According to her, the conduct was so poor that it is difficult for her to describe what she went through. "I lost a lot of money and time. I found out about the genetic disease only because I insisted on getting the donor's genetic tests.
Of course the tests arrived the day before the return and I was stressed.
When I received more, the coordinator there told me that '
I won a Jewish donor and she is a carrier, but everyone has something.'"
They have already completed me.
It took them a week to find the embryos and they were in the clinic for several months.
After this process I decided that I don't want anything to do with them because I don't trust them."
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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.
"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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