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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "(j) in the definition of “treatment service” by deleting the words “women to carry children” and substituting therefor the words “a pregnant woman”; and, (k) by inserting the following new definitions in the proper alphabetical sequence— “assisted reproductive technology expert” means an obstetrician or gynaecologist that has sub-specialised in reproductive endocrinology and fertility medicine; “assisted reproductive technology services” includes the diagnostic and screening, endoscopic surgery, intra-uterine insemination, in-vitro fertilisation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, cryo-preservation, pre-implantation genetic screening, pre- implantation genetic diagnosis, onco-fertility, gamete and embryo donation, or surrogacy provided to infertile and sub-fertile man or woman; “commissioning parents” means a man and woman, whether a couple or parties to a marriage, who enter into a surrogacy arrangement seeking assistance in procreation through the help of a surrogate mother or donor; “cryo-preservation” means the assisted reproductive technology process of cooling and storing gametes, or embryos at very low temperatures to preserve their viability includes also embryo, egg or sperm freezing; “diagnosis” means the process of testing and screening to ascertain the proper functioning of the reproductive systems and its processes at the beginning of the assisted reproductive technology process; “Directorate” means the Assisted Reproductive Technology Directorate established under section 4; “donation” for purposes of this Act, means a process in Assisted Reproductive Technology, of voluntarily giving gametes or embryos for purposes of procreation; “embryologist” means a specialist who deals with gametes and assists in the process of fertilisation in the laboratory; “embryology” means a branch of biology that deals with gametes and development of embryos; “endoscopic surgery” means a surgery in assisted reproductive technology involving techniques that limit the size of incisions performed with one or more small incisions instead of large incisions, and passing a telescope with a video camera through the incision into the body cavity; “infertile or sub-fertile client” means a man and woman whether a couple or parties to a marriage who are not able to procreate naturally; “infertility” means the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected coitus or other proven medical condition preventing a couple from conception; “intracytoplasmic sperm injection” means an assisted reproductive technology process of whereby a single healthy sperm is injected directly into the cytoplasm of a female egg outside the body; “in-vitro fertilisation” means an assisted reproductive technology process where an egg is fertilised by a sperm in a test-tube or elsewhere outside the body; “oocyte” means naturally ovulating oocyte in the female genetic tract; “pre-implantation genetic diagnosis” means a process in assisted reproductive technology which involves assessment of the embryo for pre-existing hereditary diseases and eliminating the same before the transfer of the embryo to a woman’s womb; The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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