Tororo district Woman MP tables Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2023

By Emma Decox Nyalo 

Tororo district woman mp Sarah Opendi has tabled the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2023 saying the proposed legislation is intended to regulate the various fertility clinics operating in Uganda. 

This is a Bill intended to regulate the various fertility clinics that are operating and increasing in this country without any piece of legislation. We have consulted all the stakeholders widely and to our surprise, many African countries that actually started these services 30 years ago don’t even have any legislation.

This followed the granting of leave by Parliament on 21st July 2022, for Opendi to move this Private Member’s Bill which is the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2023.

The deputy speaker of parliament Thomas Tayebwa sent the bill to the health committee so that its processed.