Impoverished Egyptian septuplet’s family – a failure of infertility treatment?
August 27, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
The news of the birth of septuplets to an impoverished Egyptian family who already had three girls, has raised a debate on the use of fertility treatments. The 27-year-old mother, Ghazala Khamis, had been trying for five years to get pregnant again – hopefully for a boy – before taking fertility drugs. She did end up with her boy, three times over, and four more girls.
In a country where the medical resources are very limited for such intensive medical needs, many are calling the doctor who prescribed the drugs as being foolhardy
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