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The Cabinet today approved the revised Infertility Grant Scheme. The amended plan, as Minister of Health Michael Damianos said in a statement, includes, among others, the following:
1. Expansion of the right to have a child through the surrogacy procedure to apply to single women who are unable to conceive due to serious and specific medical problems, following permission from the Council for Medical Assisted Reproduction.
2. Abolition of the requirement to obtain approval from the Medical Assisted Reproduction Council for the use of assisted reproduction methods by single women, excluding surrogacy.
3. Establishment of fifty-three (53) as the maximum age of a woman's natural reproductive capacity instead of the current fifty (50).
4. Increase in the subsidy for the first course of treatment involving ovulation, artificial insemination and embryo transfer up to €4,500, subject to proof, compared to €3,500 previously.
5. Increase in the subsidy for the second cycle of treatment involving ovulation, in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer, up to €3,500, against receipts, compared with €2,500 previously.
6. Subsidy for women undergoing treatment with cryopreserved oocytes, up to €2,000 against receipts to cover the costs of in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer. The subsidy received to date was of the order of €500 and was only for embryo transfer.
The application for a subsidy to the Ministry of Health, Damianos concluded, should be submitted within four (4) months from the date of the medically assisted reproduction method.
Responding to a question from a publicist, the Minister noted that the revised plan will be implemented immediately.
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