Croatia Imports Sperm from Austria, Czech Republic

Two sperm banks in Zagreb’s Petrova Hospital do not have any more sperm dosages by anonymous donors, so Croatia has to import it.

Croatian couples who cannot conceive a child naturally due to infertility have to go out of the country to get the “reproductive material”, most often to Austria and the Czech Republic, and pay enormous amounts of money. 

Those who cannot afford that, remain on Croatia’s lengthy waiting list.

In order to resolve the waiting list, Croatia should pass a law on medicinally aided insamination because at the time there is no law to regulate such conception.

Students gave sperm for 400 kuna 

-- All reserves have been spent and new samples are not being taken –Petrova hospital sperm bank officials say.

Students used to come and contribute sperm for a symbolic ‘wage’ of 400 kuna, but now even they are not coming any more. There is more than sufficient room to store sperm, the bank’s officials stress.

Church against artificial fertilisation 

Two years ago, a law on medically aided fertilisation reached the parliament, but was soon ordered to go back to the drawing board.

The main reason was the Church’s opposition to any kind of artificial insemination, the Novi list reports.

Had the law been passed, it would have solved the situation whereby couples have to spend vast amounts of money abroad because of the absence of donor sperm in Croatia.