Health professionals in Sweden are sounding the alarm over concerns of a sperm donation shortage spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
With sperm donors deterred from travelling to hospitals during the pandemic, doctors at public fertility clinics say the worsening shortage could result in years-long delays for assisted pregnancy treatments.
"Because of the pandemic, many [men] won't come to the hospital because we have social restrictions in place," Margareta Kitlinski, a senior consultant at the Centre of Reproductive Medicine at the Skane University Hospital in Malmo, told Euronews on Thursday.
"So, over the last three months we have had to take a pulse and [right now], we don't do any IVF treatment with donor sperms because we simply don't have any," she said.