Who is an Egg Donor?

Egg Donor is a woman of IVFGLOBAL, who is capable of producing healthy eggs. The Egg Donor would remain anonymous and cannot claim any rights over the child. She would not be meeting the intended parents for whom she is acting as an Egg Donor and would not the details of the child for whom she is acting as an Egg Donor.

Using Artificial Assisted Reproductive Technology, the egg could be retrieved outside the body of the female and could be fertilized, using the sperm of the Intended Father. The resultant embryo would then be placed into the womb of the lady, who wishes to carry the child. By this way, the Intending Mother can become pregnant with an embryo that was created with the egg from a donor and the sperm from her husband.

Conditions

The following conditions needs to be fulfilled for volunteering for being an Egg Donor.

(a)  Should be within the Age limit of 21-30

(b)  Should be married and should have completed her family

(c)  Should know to read and write at least in one language

(d)  Should be free of genetic diseases, such as, epilepsy, mental illness, etc.

(e)  Should be tested negative for venereal diseases, such as HIV

(f)   Must be height and weight proportionate

 (g)  Must be able to frequently visit the doctor during the process

Process

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The sourcing and selection of the Egg Donor have the following stages.  Each of the stages has been explained in detail in the later part of this document. 

(a)  Counseling and filling up application

(b)  Selection by Intended Parents

(c)  Medical counseling for donor

(d)  Medical screening

 (a)      Application Process

Any woman who satisfies the criterion specified above shall be eligible to donate her eggs.  The aspiring Egg Donor should contact Gift life Centre through phone for fixing an appointment for completing an Application Form.  The Applicant Egg Donor should be accompanied by her husband or any other member of the family at the time of attending the interview.  The applicant should bring two passport size photographs of herself and one family photograph consisting of herself, her spouse and her children.

At the time of interview, the applicant and her family shall be counseled on the basic information related to egg donation. A designated counselor shall help the applicant understand each of the questions contained in the application and shall assist the applicant in completing the application form.  The application would contain question related to contact information, marital life, education, basic medical information, work and hobbies. 

The applicant would also be counseled on the legal implications of being an Egg Donor, which shall also be covered in this booklet.  The applicant can specify the sum that is expected for her services.

(b)       SCREENING AND CODING:

After the applications have been completed, the applications shall be screened to verify if the applications satisfies all pre-requisites specified above. After being preliminarily screened, the applications shall be fed into the system with a profile code number. The profile code shall be used for all further references to the application.

In the process of coding, all contact information shall be removed from the application. Each application shall then have a profile with a code number for reference. The profile shall not contain any contact information of the applicant to maintain the confidentiality of the applicant. The profile would contain only the non-identifying information such as height, weight, skin color etc.

(c)       SELECTION

The Intended Parents who have sought the services of an egg-donor shall be provided with the profiles of the Egg Donors. The Intended Parents shall chose a candidate based on the non-identifying information such as height, weight, skin color etc. The Intended Parents would also learn from the profiles the compensation to be paid to the Egg Donor. Candidate who has been chosen by the intended parent would move further in the application process.

(d)       MEDICAL SCREENING

The Egg Donor profiles that have been chosen by Intended Parents shall be contacted by their case manager and asked to undergo medical screening with the authorized physician. The medical screening shall consist of some basic medical tests that the applicants would be required to undertake.  The tests would contain the basic fitness of the Egg Donor, testing them venereal diseases and other basic tests which would ascertain if the candidate is fit enough to be an Egg Donor.  If the applicant has cleared all the medical screening successfully, then the applicant would be taken up for the Egg Donation Program with the hospital.

After the applicant has completed the medical screening, the application procedure for the Egg Donor is complete. The applicant can then continue with the medications for being prepared for egg donation.

Medical Procedure

 

Woman would normally release one egg from their ovaries to the uterus every month. However, to maximize the chances of an egg donation program, the qualified physician from the authorized hospital would prescribe medications for producing more eggs (4 or 5 eggs) in a single month. This process is called stimulation.

STIMULATION:

The applicant has to report to the concerned IVF Centre on the first or the second day of her menstrual bleeding. The Egg Donor shall be given medication for up to 12-15 days to stimulate multiple egg production in the ovaries.  After the physician is satisfied that the Egg Donor has been sufficiently stimulated for the procedure, a day shall be fixed for egg retrieval procedure. 

 OOCYTE RETRIEVAL PROCEDURE:

 On the day of the procedure, the Egg Donor shall be administered sedatives and the eggs shall be retrieved by transvaginal ultrasound.  After the retrieval is complete, the egg donation is complete.

Legal Information

The following legal information would be very important for the knowledge of the Egg Donor.

(a)  The information provided by the Egg Donor at the time of completing of the application form and at other times must be to the best of her knowledge.  Any information provided by the applicant and that is contrary to truth would amount to misappropriation and is legally actionable.

(b)  All eggs that have been produced and retrieved pursuant to the egg donation arrangement shall be construed to be the sole property of the Intended Parents.

(c)  The Intended Parents shall have all rights over the gametes that have been sourced through the Egg Donor arrangement.

(d)  The Intended Parents may use the eggs retrieved out of the Egg Donor to impregnate themselves for having a child or achieve parenthood through a surrogacy arrangement.

(e)  The Egg Donor shall have no rights over the egg, after the eggs have been retrieved through this process or the child that may be born.

(f)   The identity of the Egg Donor shall be kept anonymous at all times and the Intended Parents shall have no information about the Egg Donor, except such non-identifying information that may be disclosed through the Egg Donor profile.

(g)  The Egg Donor shall have no information on the identity of the Intended Parents or the child that maybe born out of this process.  All information pertaining to the Intended Parents and child would be kept confidential at all times

(h)  The Egg Donor shall make no attempt to obtain information on the Intended Parents or the child or children that may be born out of this process.

(i)    Egg Donor understands that Gift life and Indian Surrogacy Law Centre are only an ART Bank and that ART Bank shall have no responsibility towards any medical care that may be provided to the Egg Donor.

(j)    Egg Donor would not under any circumstance hold Gift life and ISLC of any responsibility that may have been caused due to a medical malpractice

(k)  Egg Donor knows that there is a medical risk of becoming infertile after the egg donation procedure.