Involved In Selling Eggs Of Teenage Girls, Four Hospitals In India Closed

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health in India's Tamil Nadu state has ordered four hospitals to close permanently after they were found involved in selling the eggs of a teenage girl.

In India, oocyte donation is only allowed for women between the ages of 21 to 35, and even then only six times in their lifetime, reports Sputnik News July 14.

To note, Oocytes, immature egg cells or egg cells, are involved in reproduction.

Last month, a case emerged in which a 16-year-old girl alleged that she had been forced to donate her eggs since the age of 12 on several occasions in private clinics.

Police arrested his mother, Soumiya, stepfather, Syed Ali, and an intermediary named Malathi.

Tamil Nadu Ma's Minister of Health. Subramanian then moved quickly to form a committee to find out which clinics were involved in the case.

A total of six hospitals were found to have violated the federal and state government's reproductive laws, Subramanian said Thursday.

"Based on the report of the investigation, we have instructed the joint director of medical and rural health services to initiate legal proceedings against the four hospitals," the minister explained.

"For the two out-of-State hospitals (Andhra Pradesh and Kerala), the Minister of Health will write letters to the respective State governments recommending action," he added.