With
the rise in the use of treatment and concerns about unlicensed clinics, the
health authority is establishing a quality control center to supervise the
assisted reproduction technique.
The
move comes as the city celebrates the 25th birthday of the country's first tube
baby - Zheng Mengzhu.
Zheng,
25, now works in the gynecology center of the Peking University Third Hospital,
where she was born to her then 39-year-old woman in 1988.
According
to the hospital, 370,000 couples visited the gynecology center last year with
80 percent of those who had IVF treatment delivering a baby.
Getting
married later in life and the increased pressure of work and environmental
conditions are causing more infertile couples. Experts have called for more
legal support to tackle unlicensed clinics and surrogate births.
