Chinese couples go abroad for fertility tourism
Chinese couples are going abroad for in search of IVF treatment. High demand in the country after the end of the one child policy means Chinese doctors can't treat all those who seek assistance conceiving.
This photo taken on May 17, 2018 shows a Thai physician (C) receiving Chinese couple Zhang Yinzhe (L) and Xu Mengsha (R) at the Piyavate Hospital in Bangkok specialising in in-vitro fertilisation. The easing of China's one-child policy was a godsend to Zhang Yinzhe and his wife Xu Mengsha, who had decided they wanted to use in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to freeze an embryo in the hope of one day having a second child.
China is seeing a boom in people seeking fertility treatments after the end of its decades long one-child policy.
It's turned the country into one of the world's biggest markets for in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
However, restrictions on egg donations and surrogacy are sending many overseas to Southeast Asia or the US for treatment.
TRT World's John Joe Regan reports.
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