Fertility charity defends running IVF lottery game

THE founder of a British charity that offers support to childless couples and people struggling to start a family has defended a new lottery game which offers a prize of €28,000 in fertility treatments.

Camille Strachan, of the To Hatch charity, said the new lottery would help people who cannot afford to attend private fertility treatment clinics in areas where IVF has been axed from the British National Health Service (NHS).

“The cuts in the NHS are going to get worse, not better, and every month that goes by is a problem for somebody who is hoping to conceive. I know because I have been through it myself,” she said. “If I didn’t think this was right, I wouldn’t have launched it.”