The Gazette: Fertility treatment will be free: Bolduc

Free fertility treatments for Quebecers who want a test tube baby are to be delivered by Premier Jean Charest just in time for this year's St. Jean Baptiste celebrations. The commitment to launch the program "by the end of spring 2010" was issued yesterday afternoon by Health Minister Yves Bolduc… "We'll be able to help people who couldn't afford it before," said Dr. Hananel Holzer of the McGill Reproductive Centre at McGill University. The centre "is currently doing about 1,000 (embryo-implantation) cycles per year, which is more than half the cycles in Quebec," he said.

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