Mumbai : (DNA/ Santosh Andhale and Somita Pal) : In a first in India, the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has
decided to formulate rules and regulations on surrogacy and has formed a
committee for the same. The step was taken after the Mumbai police
commissioner wrote a complaint letter to the MMC alleging malpractice on
part of city's three leading infertility experts, who are from the
surrogacy sector.
MMC is a statutory body that has the power to suspend a doctor's licence if s/he is found guilty of malpractice.
Currently, the surrogacy treatment is unchecked, unsupervised and not
regularised. According to sources, there are around 70-80 IVF (in-vitro
fertilisation) centres in Mumbai and 200 in the state, with the numbers
rising over the past few months. The cost of the treatment runs into
lakhs.
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