A gynecologist offering fertility treatment at Alrijne Hospital in Leiderdorp , Netherlands , has consider at least 21 children using his own sperm cell , an probe has found .
Last year , Fiom – an organisation that track biologic parents of children born through anon. donors – approached the hospital . They had find a number of match between Jos Beek – who work at the infirmary between 1973 and 1998 – and people using their service to find their biological parents .
“ We are very shocked by this , " Peter Jue of the board of directors say in astatement . " This of course has a important impingement on the parents and children involved . We immediately enter into a conversation with the shaver and parent who want to , to mind and to promise our cooperation . We recognise the place they have line up themselves in and want to do as much as potential to get information on the table . The way this doctor dissemble at the prison term is unacceptable . ”
Fiom and the hospital suggest that , as far as they are aware , the parent require in the handling did not know they were encounter Beek ’s sperm . While the doctor was make , the hospital writes , scarcely any regulation regarding fertility program were in home .
" We would care to emphasize that the post is now completely dissimilar . We use national protocols and sour in a consistent and careful mode . Our figure out method acting is on a regular basis checked through audited account . "
Both the infirmary andFiomare appealing for anyone who suspects they might be descendants of Jos Beek , who died in 2019 , to come forward .
The scandal is not the first of its variety in the Netherlands . One prolific sperm conferrer have sex as " Louis " fatheredover 200 childrenvia sperm contribution . Louis was specifically hoping that if he donated enough of his spermatozoan , one of his children would pass over him down .
“ If I had 10 children this way , there would be a very svelte chance of success , ” hetold the Guardian in 2018 . “ But what if I had 100 … or even more ? ”
In 2019 , another DNA analysis found fertility doctorJan Karbaatfathered at least 49 nipper via his work at a Rotterdam Clinic . It is believe that the aggregate could be as high as 60 , though he pall in 2017 ripened 89 , pull in the font much more difficult to investigate .
