Asians could use Caucasian donor eggs

Childless British Asian couples could consider using donor eggs from Caucasian women to avoid waiting or missing out on having a baby, says a fertility specialist.

Consultant Neelam Potdar says there is a chronic shortage of Asian egg donors.

UK figures show that between 2009 and 2013, 2,967 white women donated their eggs compared with 83 women of Indian or Pakistani ethnicity.

BBC Asian Network's Sheetal Parmar reports.

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