Surrogate babies stranded by Covid

Arrests expected as many left at hospital

The Covid-19 outbreak has left many newborn babies of illegal surrogate mothers stranded in Thailand because of international travel bans.

“Many babies from commercial surrogate mothers could not be given to the clients due to the Covid-19 travel ban in many countries,” Dr Akom Praditsuwan, the Department of Health Service Support (HSSD), said yesterday.

Dr Akom said the babies were now being cared for by officials from the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security as police and other agencies tried to track down all those complicit in the illegal business to charge them with human trafficking.

He said that since travel bans were imposed due to the pandemic, many women suspected of being surrogate mothers had gone to hospitals…

Surrogate babies stranded by Covid