China’s health body probes hospital after surrogacy claims

China's health body probes hospital after surrogacy claims

After seeing a lot of social media coverage of the matter, China’s National Health Commission announced it was looking into a clinic in Chongqing’s south megalopolis for its alleged involvement in infertility, which is prohibited in China.

Following a number of official inquiries last year about the issuing of false birth certificates in a country where China is attempting to increase its birth rate, the incident comes as a result.

According to a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Sunday, Chongqing Angel Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital has been working with unlawful infertility organizations.

According to the post, which was created by a person named Shangguan Zhengyi, who describes himself as a charity fighting child prostitution, substitute moms may use forged ID cards to deliver their children in the medical and forged birth certificates may be produced after the babies were born.

The Chongqing health committee’s native Chongqing health committee responded to the post by setting up a team to investigate and evaluate the situation in a statement released on Sunday.

” Once verified, it ( the hospital ) will be dealt with seriously in accordance with laws and regulations”.

Chongqing Angel Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital did not respond to a sent opinion request.

On Monday, the hospital’s Weibo article received hundreds of comments, making it one of the most popular topics.

” This business always seems to possess existed”, said one post by a person called Wensheng. This is an industrial network, according to another person, XJ.

China threatened to” greatly crack down” on illegal actions involving the use of sperm- or egg-buying, infertility, and other assisted reproductive technologies.

Following accusations of infertility and distributing false paternity results, it suspended a doctor and criminal institution in Wuhan in November.

In China, birth certificates are essential for obtaining home registration, medical insurance enrollment, and social security card application.