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News Int'l Business Articles Cricket News Features Columns News by City by State People Acting Artists Movies Britons travel to India for 'reproductive tourism'March 20, 2006By Indo Asian News Service London, March 20 (IANS) Several British couples keen to have children have been travelling to India for surrogate mothers, lending a new dimension to medical outsourcing.

In what is called 'reproductive tourism' in India, the couples - many of them of Asian origin - find arranging for surrogate mothers in India far cheaper than the thousands of pounds they spend on fertility treatment in Britain.British patients waiting on long queues for normal operations travelling to India for speedier treatment is no longer news.

But reports say that the Indian medical infrastructure is now being increasingly used by British nationals for reproductive purpose.The Guardian Monday reported the case of a couple from Leicester, Ajay and Saroj Shah, who used the services of Daksha, a 31-year-old surrogate mother in Gujarat.

She is loaning her womb for Rs.150,000 ($3,300).The Shahs reportedly spent 60,000 pounds on fertility treatment in Britain, with little success.The newspaper report said: 'The British couple appear to be part of a flourishing trade in reproductive tourism in India, which has a more relaxed attitude to pay...

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