Ontario is set to expand the number of clinics where people can access publicly funded fertility services — such as in vitro fertilization — as part of a 150-million-dollar plan to boost access across the province.
Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the new funding, over two years, will triple the number of families able to get government-funded services in hospitals and clinics.
The government says the Ontario Fertility Program is currently offered through 50 clinics that provide I-V-F, intra-uterine insemination and fertility preservation services, and each patient is eligible for one publicly funded I-V-F cycle in their lifetime.
Further details on the expansion will be released in the spring budget.
CANADIAN PRESS