Fifty reports were received by a call from the Isala hospital in Zwolle, addressed to patients of fertility doctor Jan Wildschut. Wildschut fathered at least 47 donor children with his own sperm.
This week, after this call and reports about the gynecologist Jos Beek, 53 donor children and 8 donors reported to the FIOM Foundation. That’s what the foundation says by News Hour. Normally, about thirty applications for the DNA database are received per month.
They are registered in a database of the FIOM, which is specialized in descent issues. It contains DNA from both donors and donor children. In a match, donor children know whether they have half-brothers or half-sisters and in some cases this also reveals who their biological father is.
tip of iceberg
Wildschut was involved in ‘Artificial Insemination Donor Sperm’ and ‘Artificial Insemination with Own Sperm’ at the Isala hospital in Zwolle from 1981 to 1993. Isala called for an overview of the number of children involved, director Ina Kuper told Nieuwsuur.
Wildschut used his own seed for the treatments, just like Jos Beek and Jan Karbaat. According to the Donorkind Foundation, these three are just ‘the tip of the iceberg’. It was not until 2004 that anonymous donation was banned. The foundation wants a major independent study by doctors and gynaecologists until that moment.
‘Right not to know’
Wildschut treated about 14,000 patients in his time before the Isala hospital, then the Sophia hospital. Not all of them receive a letter, but the hospital will search specifically. ‘That works better,’ says Kuper. It is not certain that in all cases there was a successful pregnancy.
“Children also have the right not to know,” says the director. No reports have been received about Wildschut’s time at the Academic Hospital in Leiden. Kuper says he has heard of reports about other doctors, but “we are not aware of those names.”
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