Beijing has designated 11 medical institutions to provide assisted reproduction service, or test-tube baby operations, said an official Thursday.
Deng Xiaohong, vice director of the municipal health bureau, said that all these institutions have carried out more than 6,000 successful operations, among nearly 20,000 people who received the treatment.
These institutions include the No.3 Clinical Hospital attached to Beijing University, where the first baby conceived via external fertilization and embryo transplantation was born on March 10, 1988.
The other ten organizations are: the No.1 Clinical Hospital attached to Beijing University, Beijing Maternity Hospital, Beijing People's Hospital, Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, the Women and Children Health Hospital of Haidian District, Beijing Jiaen Hospital, the Naval General Hospital, the General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation ArmyBeijing Command, and the Technology Service Center of the State Family Planning Reproduction Health.
Deng notes that any other medical organizations of the city are forbidden to provide the assisted reproduction service, which is demanding in both technology and ethics.
Source: Xinhua
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