Fertility Preservation

The Funding Process
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Funding Criteria

To qualify for assistance, the following criteria must be met:

  1. The applicant must either have been born Jewish or converted with the Johannesburg Beth Din.
  2. The applicant must complete a confidential financial assessment.
  3. The applicant must provide a motivation from the treating doctor with relevant blood results.
  4. The applicant must sign the conditions of egg freezing letter.
  5. The applicant must meet with the Malka Ella counsellor prior to the application being processed.
  6. The Malka Ella Rabbi is required to sign off the procedure.
  7. The procedure must be performed in a halachically acceptable manner.
  8. The Fund covers ONLY 1  cycle of oocyte freezing at the maximum cost of R50 000 to the Fund.
  9. Egg freezing will ONLY be funded, subject to approval, if the procedure is carried out at the Vitalab practice in Johannesburg.

Terms and Conditions

Conditions of receipt from the Malka Ella Fertility Fund are:

  1. A Malka Ella appointed mashgicha must be present in the laboratory at all times when the procedure is being performed.
  2. Sufficient notice must be provided to SHIFRA (Malka Ella division in charge of supervision), to ensure that a mashgicha is present at all procedures. The Fund will not pay for any procedures that are not supervised.
  3. No procedures may be done on Shabbat or Yom Tov.
  4. Funding and financial decisions are at the sole discretion of the coordinators of the Fund.
  5. All payments are made directly to the doctor or hospital, and will only be actioned once a written quote or invoice is provided.
  6. SHIFRA will retain record of the location of the stored oocytes.
  7. Oocytes may only be used under supervision once the client is married according to Halacha, if not then the full cost of the oocyte freezing procedure must be reimbursed to the Fund.
  8. If oocytes are no longer needed, they must be disposed of in the presence of a mashgicha.
  9. Permission is given to the Fund to make contact with the treating doctor to discuss individual cases.

All information provided to the Fund is handled in the strictest confidence.