Health Minister Mark Butler has doubled down on calls for Monash IVF to publicly release its review into cases of patients being implanted with the wrong embryos in different states, after Monash IVF confirmed on Wednesday that the review was complete but provided scant details of the report’s findings.
Butler said the embryo bungles were “incredibly distressing” for many Australian parents, adding that he doesn’t “buy” the argument that privacy concerns were behind the report’s secrecy.
Health Minister Mark Butler.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
“This is a mainstream and I want to make sure everyone understands what happened here and what is being done to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” Butler told Nine’s Today.
“You can always redact the private [aspects], but we need to get to the bottom of what happened and get confidence back into parents’ lives.”
Butler said self-regulation in the industry wasn’t “good enough”, and didn’t rule out introducing changes, such as greater or harmonised regulation, to support Australian parents.
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