Chinese mother struggling to pay medical bills for surrogate baby with brain condition
Woman from Guizhou realised something was wrong with her son when she brought him back from Cambodia
A Chinese mother who paid 450,000 yuan (US$69,200) for a baby delivered by a surrogate mother in Cambodia says she is struggling to cover the cost of her son’s medical care after he was born with a serious illness, a Chinese news website reports.
The mother, surnamed Lin, said she had spent more than 2 million yuan on treatment for her baby since he was born in July and diagnosed with brain atrophy in October, Kanfa News reported on Wednesday.
The condition means the baby’s brain has not developed properly – leading to a loss of brain cells and damage to the connections between them. Cerebral atrophy is associated with many diseases that affect the brain including cerebral palsy.
Lin, who is from Guizhou province in the south, told the news outlet that she badly wanted a child and had tried in vitro fertilisation without success.
She eventually paid an agency – Shenzhou Zhongtai – based in Wuhan, Hubei to arrange a surrogate birth in Cambodia after she was told by her doctor that IVF had a low success rate, the report said.
