The Queensland government has kept the door open on exercising new powers against a major IVF provider. The bungle at the Monash IVF clinic has also prompted other providers to urge calm among clients.
00:00The bungled embryo transfer at Monash IVF was detected only after the patient requested an embryo count.
00:08Now some expecting parents are looking for reassurances from other IVF providers.
00:14City Fertility is one of them.
00:16We had quite a few patients just wanting reassurance that the number of embryos that they believed they had in the tank is what we had listed in the tank.
00:23They issued this statement.
00:25We just wanted to reassure them before they got too worked up about it or too concerned.
00:29Health Minister Tim Nichols expressing deep concern.
00:32I can't even imagine just how distressing this must be for them.
00:36He's keeping the door open on exercising new powers to inspect Monash IVF Brisbane's clinic in the future.
00:43Monitoring what Monash's response is and we stand ready to provide whatever support we can.
00:49But any action could be months away after legislation to control assisted reproductive technology was passed through parliament last year.
00:57It's due to come into effect in September. There's regulations that are being currently drawn up at the moment.
01:03Those powers will give the state government the ability to conduct inspections to apply conditions on licence holders and in some cases revoke the licence of non-compliant IVF operators.
01:14Clinics should have really robust, high quality, high standards, excellent systems.
01:19And as a regulator in the future we will be ensuring that these organisations do everything they can to make sure this terrible type of event doesn't occur into the future.
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