Two Thai doctors face probe for providing surrogacy services

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Two doctors face probe for providing surrogacy services



BANGKOK: -- Two doctors who provided surrogacy services will be investigated by an ethical panel of the Medical Council.

Medical Council chief Dr Somsak Lolekha said Thursday that the council had received adequate information implicating the two doctors for allegedly breaching announcement 1/2540 and announcement 21.2545 of the Medical Council regarding assisted reproduction technology.

The announcements stipulate that the surrogate mothers must be blood relatives of the biological parents, must have a child of their own before and age between 20-35 and, above all, the surrogacy must be for commercial purpose.

Dr Somsak said that once the ethical panel had completed its probe, the findings will be submitted to the executive committee of the Medical Council for consideration before a committee is to be appointed to met out the penalties.

He said that the whole process might take several months because the Medical Council has to be very cautious because the issue at stake in sensitive and, also, bearing in mind that the council itself may be sued.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/two-doctors-face-probe-providing-surrogacy-services/

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[chainarong]

There appears to be sound rules that are there to be broken, there needs to be sound checks and balances, to ensure that this does not occur ever again, there must have been nurses involved and records made,  someone besides the doctors are involved, including child registration, theres more to this go and look besides the two doctors.

[ChrisY1]

The way this ussue is shaping up.....Thailand may be in the news even further, for all the wrong reasons.......do we see another "hub" coming up!

It now appears that there was a Thai medical professor involved.....!

The ethics of Soi dogs some of these people have ...

[Payboy]

Teerak, where did I keep the Rogaine? I have an important press conference tomorrow.

[klauskunkel]

 

 and, above all, the surrogacy must be for commercial purpose.
 

Journalists, when they get it wrong, they really get it wrong, above all!

Edited August 8, 2014 by klauskunkel

[chooka]

There may be a lot of abandoned farang kids in Thailand soon, surrogate mothers going underground having the kids then abandon them threw fear of prosecution.

[Mudcrab]

There may be a lot of abandoned farang kids in Thailand soon, surrogate mothers going underground having the kids then abandon them threw fear of prosecution.

Or mothers impregnated by low life farangs who do a runner.