China population: hospital caught offering illegal baby gender selection for potential parents ordered to cease service
- The hospital offers services such as a ‘LST baby tailor-making’ technology to assure a gender selection success rate as high as 99 per cent
- Chinese law bans fetus’ gender identification at health institutions except in the condition that there is a medical reason
Health authorities in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing have ordered a hospital to cease offering baby gender selection services.
Edward Hospital, a private facility in the city’s Shapingba District, earlier this month launched the fetus customisation service, claiming that they can help people have boys if they want or girls, Chongqing TV reported.
The hospital offered three packages at different prices. The most expensive one is described as “LST baby tailor-making” technology combined with the hospital’s “excellent traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expertise” to assure the success rate as high as 99 per cent, according to the hospital’s advertisement, the report said.
A doctor from the hospital, surnamed Yang, told Chongqing TV she is not sure precisely what LST technology is, but said she understood it to be imported from the UK, Germany and Japan.
The other two cheaper packages are based on oral medicines and physiotherapy. Yang did not elaborate on how these two options worked.
The advertisement said it will follow the male to female ratio of 1:1, explaining that it will carry out its service for every two couples, with one couple wanting to have a boy baby and the other wanting a girl.
