| A vital way of assessing the reputation and | | | | donated before or not as yet, but it means that their |
| professionalism of an agency is to understand the | | | | psychological and medical testing have confirmed their |
| make-up of the egg donor database. As human | | | | suitability. |
| beings we are all different, accordingly we all need | | | | This concept confirms the egg donor to participate |
| unique egg donor requirements. The percentage of | | | | on a fertility program. However the actual screening |
| pre-screened egg donors is important as it gives an | | | | and testing for people offering their egg donor help |
| indication of the established people. This database | | | | differs per fertility clinic South Africa. So if treatment |
| also needs to be made up of a good mix of different | | | | is required at a different clinic from where the testing |
| profiled persons that will be of interest to different | | | | was undertaken, additional tests may be required |
| people and also in different regions. | | | | again. |
| Very often, recipients of donor eggs will select an | | | | Always ascertain how long the agency has been in |
| unique person based on a lengthy research period | | | | business, their succes rates, their number of |
| and obtaining of extensive information including | | | | pre-screened egg donors, this as a percentage of the |
| physical traits, personality, health, medical, social and | | | | total database and their relationships with fertility |
| academic background insight. It is however also | | | | clinics. Immediate access to this database should |
| important for such egg donation recipients to have | | | | enable persons looking for third partyu reproductive |
| the back-up security that in the event of an | | | | treatment to be able to view this information about |
| unforseen situation, a well established database of | | | | the testing immediately. |
| pre-screened ladies exists. These ladies may have | | | | |