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How a couple from the USA overcame closed borders to meet a son born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine

U.S. resident Yuwaraj Nagendram is preparing to end his trip of nearly 10 thousand kilometers from California to Kiev to pick up his son, one of 46 babies born to surrogate mothers, which are located at the Venice Hotel in Kyiv. "NV" tells the main thing about the way parents and son reunite in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“Could neither sleep nor eat”

A married couple, Yuvaraj and Sarvika Nagendram from California, unsuccessfully tried to have a baby for 17 years, until they turned to a surrogate mother from Ukraine for help. The fact that they had a son, they learned in early May, but could not go after him because of the borders closed around the world.

The couple found the Kiev clinic of surrogate motherhood BioTexCom in June 2018 - an agent helped them in this.

“He answered quickly and was very responsive regarding my questions and other things. So I decided to go to Ukraine. When we met with [agent], I liked him, he is a very good person. We were very well received at the clinic, ”said Juvaraj to ABC.

After the spouses handed over their biological materials, a long process of fertilization of the egg began. The couple found out that they had a son, May 5, 2020.

“We were very happy. When we saw his photo, my wife cried, and I just sat very quietly. At the same time, we were confused - we wanted to celebrate, but because of quarantine we began to worry when we could see him, ”the man said, emphasizing that since that time he and his wife could not sleep or eat.

By that time, the air borders of countries were already closed.

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Hotel babies

The air borders of Ukraine were closed on March 17, five days after quarantine was introduced in the country due to the situation with coronavirus. Among all flights, only special ones were carried out, which evacuated Ukrainians from abroad.

In this situation, Yuvaraj Nagendram still tried to buy a ticket for a flight to Ukraine, but the carrier requested permission from the Ukrainian government, writes ABC.

Then the man turned to the US Embassy in Ukraine, but they also asked him to provide additional documents to facilitate the organization of the trip: the booked flight and the route.

Then Nagendram booked a flight on May 16 to Minsk, Belarus, and began to wait for permission to enter Ukraine.

Shortly before this, a scandal erupted in the country related to the BioTexCom clinic, where a couple from California went: on April 30, this center published a video of 46 babies born to surrogate mothers from foreigners being quarantined at the Venice Hotel, owned by the clinic’s owner, Albert Tochilovsky.

Earlier, the center of surrogate motherhood fell into scandal because of suspicions of "human trafficking" put forward by the Prosecutor General.

In the video, the clinic staff and the hotel administrator claim that they take care of the babies, spend time with them on the street, bathe, and the pediatrician examines the newborns every day.

However, the video first attracted the attention of users of social networks, and then of the authorized Verkhovna Rada for human rights, Lyudmila Denisova.

“This video is a confirmation that the situation with the provision of surrogacy services is a mass and systemic clinic, and surrogacy technologies are advertised and presented as“ high-quality goods, ”she wrote on her Facebook page, calling for legislative restrictions on the ability of foreigners to use the services. Ukrainian surrogate mothers.

Later, information about the number of children in the Venice Hotel was clarified: as of May 14, there were 51 children there, 15 of whom lived with their parents.

The Ukrainian Ombudsman sent her representative Oksana Filipishina there to check the documents and living conditions of the babies.

“If these children are here on the basis of the power of attorney of those parents who are parties to civil contracts for the birth of a child by artificial insemination using surrogacy, there are no questions,” Filipishina said.

After that, the Ombudsman herself stated that she has “no complaints yet” to the BioTexCom clinic, and also spoke about the problem of the fact that the parents of 36 children cannot enter Ukraine due to quarantine restrictions.

“My representatives checked that everything seems to be fine, very clean, very neat children. There are cameras through which staff communicates with parents in turn. There is a communication schedule. And they show them this baby, how he looks, how he feels, ”said Denisova.

Parents of babies are citizens of different states: China, Germany, Spain, France, Bulgaria, England, Romania and the USA. Lyudmila Denisova urged them to turn to her for help in arranging entry into Ukraine and departure home in a closed flight connection.

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“I'm on my way to him”

For the services of the Ukrainian center for surrogacy, Yuvaraj and Sarvika Nagendram from California paid from $ 150 thousand to $ 200 thousand.

“Looking into the past, I think that perhaps I could spend a little more, but at least do it here in the USA,” he told journalist Yulia Drozd for the ABC storyline.

According to lawyer, director of the Center for Medical and Reproductive Law Sergei Antonov, among all clients of such clinics the share of foreigners is 85% (last year in an interview with NV he estimated this figure at 70%). The lawyer also criticized the opinion previously voiced by the Ukrainian Ombudsman that foreigners should be prohibited from using the services of Ukrainian surrogate mothers.

In a conversation with NV, he stated that Ukrainian laws in the field of reproductive rights are far from liberal.

“There are better jurisdictions, and Ukraine is in the middle peasants. However, several factors worked here: [in Ukraine] the programs started earlier, a high level of development of medicine, many clinics, there is the possibility of easier and more relaxed paperwork. Therefore, foreigners choose Ukraine, bypassing, for example, Georgia, where prices are lower and more liberal in some respects - for example, the so-called marital status, ”Antonov noted.

He plans to call the child a married couple Nagendram Alan, and although the parents couldn’t phone their baby through a video link, soon they will probably be able to hold him in their arms - last Friday, May 15, Yuvaraj and Sarvika received a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine with confirmation that they can enter the country and pick up their son.

“I am already on my way to it and feel as if I have conquered the whole world. In our opinion [with my wife], now people around the world pay more attention to death, and not so much to birth. This is probably our fate, ”concluded Juvaraj Nagendram.

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