Find someone! Tens of thousands of embryos frozen in a Xiamen hospital lay quietly in a tank of liquid nitrogen at minus 196 ° C for ten years without any care.

Original title: Find someone! Tens of thousands of embryos frozen in a Xiamen hospital lay quietly in a tank of liquid nitrogen at minus 196 ℃ for ten years without any care.

Tens of thousands of embryos frozen in the hospital have not been interested for ten years. Recently, the Xiamen Reproductive Center 174 of the 73rd Army Army Hospital (formerly Hospital 174) issued a cleaning notice and tens of thousands of frozen embryos have not been visited for ten years.

Xiamen 174 Reproductive Center said that to maintain these “lives”, the hospital has reserved a place to store liquid nitrogen tanks and constantly fill them with liquid nitrogen every week. Some frozen embryos haven’t paid the freezing fee for more than 10 years, but the hospital is still kept. These frozen embryos consumed a lot of medical resources and caused a great burden on the hospital.

It is understood that the conditions for freezing embryos are strict and it is necessary to store them in a liquid nitrogen tank at minus 196 ° C, since only in this environment the metabolism of the embryo can be almost in a static state and maintain the quality in the moment it was extracted.

The hospital urged couples who left frozen embryos in those years to seriously consider their stay. If they want to keep the embryos, either spouse must bring the identification card, the marriage certificate, the woman’s medical record, and the medical card to the hospital to keep the embryos.

Analysis of the global profile of assisted reproduction

On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, was born in the UK. In the last 40 years, the number of people born through IVF technology has grown at a much faster rate than people expected. In April 2018, the journal “Reproductive BioMedicine” published an online article entitled “A demographic projection of the contribution of assisted reproductive technologies to world population growth”, which evaluated the role of assisted reproductive technologies in the promotion of world population growth. Data shows that by 2100, the number of people born with IVF technology may reach 3.5% of the world’s population (around 400 million people).

In terms of level of implementation, in July 2018, the report issued by the International Assisted Reproductive Technology Monitoring Committee showed that since 1978, more than 8 million test tube babies have reached the world. Currently, more than 2 million cycles of IVF treatment are implemented worldwide each year, and the number of babies who have successfully delivered this technology each year has exceeded 500,000.

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