Create Cryobank: mobilized from the Russian Federation allowed to freeze semen for free

Following the announcement of the "partial" mobilization, the demand for cryopreservation of germ cells among Russians increased by an average of 3 times. The service costs about 10 thousand rubles. Russian men will be able to freeze for free and save sperm for free. The President of the NGO "Union of Advocates of Russia" Igor Trunov said this.

The head of the organization requested the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin to create a free cryobank of genetic material for mobilized. At the initiative of the lawyer, they changed the rules of compulsory health insurance system to obtain free quotas for the treatment of infertility of the invaders and their partners. Trunov says he received a response from the government.

The Ministry of Health of Russia was able to allocate money for free conservation and storage of germ cells (sperm) mobilized for participation in a "special military operation" for 2022-2024, he said. "The next free use of preserved genetic material for auxiliary reproductive technologies is regulated by law in the presence of testimony within the MPS," he explained.

The lawyer says that his organization wants to seek medical care for free cryopreservation of genetic material in favor of several couples, where men were sent to the front. At the end of September, the Bolsha City Written about an increase in demand for cryopreservation services after mobilization was announced. In the hospital with this request, on average, they began to come three times more often.

According to the head of the Moscow Bank of Reproductive Cells "Reprobank" by Avdantila Zvadze, more than ten people are approached by the day. After the start of the war in Ukraine, on February 24, there was no increase in interest in the procedure. "Frost will cost about 10 thousand rubles, the same amount will have to be spent on consultation, analyzes and payment of storage," the authors of the material said.

Professor of the Department of Urology of the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples Igor Vinogradov reported that earlier in the Center 5-6 cryopreservations per week were carried out. Now there are 3 appeals in just 1 day. We will remind that on December 26 in the Moscow region detained 8 mobilized Russians. Men escaped from the war zone in the Luhansk region.