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After her son dies of cancer, Pune woman gets gift of life in his twins through surrogate mother
After the death of Prathamesh, with a will of having her son back, Rajashree Patil contacted the Germany Semen Bank where Prathamesh had cryopreserved his semen. Semen cryopreservation is a procedure to preserve sperm cells. Semen can be used successfully indefinitely after cryopreservation.
The parents of a 27-year-old man, who died of a brain tumour in 2016, used his cryopreserved semen to have grandchildren through a surrogate pregnancy.
The preserved semen of Pune’s Prathamesh Patil was used to fertilise the eggs from a non-family anonymous donor with matching features and the embryo was then implanted in a close relative.