Every patient has the right to information. The DMAI/NABH patient charter states: “Patients and/ or their family members have the right to receive complete information on the medical problem, prescription, treatment and procedure details. A documented procedure for obtaining patient’s and / or their family’s informed consent exists to enable them to make an informed decision about their care. This process is an important patient right and needs to practiced with utmost diligence and transparency.”

The MCI Code of Ethics Regulations 2002, has also specifically addressed this issue under Regulation 7.21 as follows: “No act of in vitro fertilization or artificial insemination shall be undertaken without the informed consent of the female patient and her spouse as well as the donor. Such consent shall be obtained in writing only after the patient is provided, at her own level of comprehension, with sufficient information about the purpose, methods, risks, inconveniences, disappointments of the procedure and possible risks and hazards.”