IVF treatments to resume in Victoria

IVF procedures will resume in Victoria following a campaign by advocates who pleaded with the state government to reverse its decision.

Some services will restart from Thursday, with hospitals scaling up their operations to enable procedures to resume from 11.59pm on Tuesday, 25 January.

“IVF is a challenging journey for anyone to go through, let alone in the midst of a global pandemic, and we’re deeply sorry for the distress caused by affected services in recent weeks,” Acting Minister for Health James Merlino said on Thursday.

“We thank Victorians for their patience as we’ve worked through critical workforce issues, xjmtzywand we’ll keep working to have other services restored as soon as we can.”