UK lottery offers IVF treatment as top prize
BRITAIN WILL this month get a unique monthly lottery, which will offer fertility treatment worth £25,000 as the top prize.
The charity called To Hatch will launch the lottery by offering tickets online for £20 each from July 30. The lottery buyers then have the chance of winning prize of fertility treatment worth £25,000 every month from a choice of five private IVF clinics.
The charity offers fertility advice to couples who need in vitro fertilisation treatment.
The Gambling Commission has cleared the lottery plan and granted a licence to the charity to run the lottery. The commission has granted the charity permission to run “society lottery,” which entitles it to manage and promote a lottery to raise funds.
Apart from couples, single people and gay people will also be eligible for the lottery. There also will be no bar on age of the lottery winners as long as they fulfil the clinical guidelines for IVF treatment.
The prize money will pay for one cycle of IVF at the clinic of the winner’s choice along with complementary therapy, accommodation and travel costs.
The winners will also be given accommodation in a hotel and will be chauffeur-driven to a clinic for treatment.
In case IVF is not suitable for the winner, the person could be offered donor eggs, reproductive surgery or surrogate birth. In case, a single person wins the lottery, they could be provided, as the case be, with donor sperm, or a surrogate mother and donor embryo.
The prize can also be transferred to friends and family members.
“The cuts in the NHS are going to get worse, not better, and every month that goes by is a problem for somebody who is hoping to conceive. I know because I have been through it myself. If I didn’t think this was right, I wouldn’t have launched it,” Camille Strachan, the founder of the charity said, defending the charity’s decision to launch the lottery.
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