Oocyte Donors’ Awareness on Donation Procedure and Risks: A Call for Developing Guidelines for Health Tourism in Oocyte Donation Programmes

The health professionals have the main duty to counsel the donors about the basic procedures and any possible problems they may face during the donation programmes. Reimbursement of oocyte donors is a slippery slope path in oocyte donation programmes. High compensation may make women to think that donation is a profession without considering possible risks. Furthermore, with the wider use of direct-toconsumer genetic testing, genetic anonymity may be at risk, thus the donors have to be counselled properly. Therefore, in this era of health tourism, it is crucial to set up well-defined counselling bodies in all oocyte donation centres and enable the donors to make an informed choice in becoming oocyte donors.