One of the country’s largest egg donor programmes has closed because of concerns about its partner clinic in Ukraine [1].
The Rotunda IVF clinic ended its service in September because of “significant concerns” about the Ukraine clinic where donor eggs were combined with Irish sperm before embryos were frozen and sent back to Ireland for implantation.
Many couples spend more than €10,000 on the service.
Rotunda IVF said transport of sperm and embryos in and out of Ukraine had become “more complex and precarious” because of Covid-19.
The Sunday Times has learnt that three medical negligence cases have been filed against Rotunda IVF in the High Court in the past month. In one case, a couple allege the egg-donor programme had “systemic failings” and they entered that programme only after an error compromised their chances of conceiving with their own egg and sperm.
In another case, Augustus Cullen Law is representing a couple who allege their chances of conceiving were destroyed by the use of a contaminated instrument.