Susanne Liffner is chief physician at the Reproductive Medicine Center in Linköping and is impressed that after all, there are so many who are ready to donate sperm to the hospital.
The process is complicated.
- If ten sign up, it is about one that we can then use as a donor.
In the video above, she shows the room at the clinic to those who want to make donations.
Imported semen
The queues are the same length regardless of whether you come as a couple or single and want help with conception.
One way to solve the sperm deficiency would have been to import from other countries, as is done in some private clinics.
But Susanne Liffner says that the hospital would then no longer have control over the donors.
The rules also differ between different countries.
In Sweden, a donor may give rise to children in a maximum of six families.
This is to reduce the risk that children who are genetic half-siblings happen to meet each other and have children together.
- In other countries, there are donors who have given birth to 100 children.
Must not be anonymous
Another difference is that Sweden in 1985 became the first country in the world where donors are not allowed to be anonymous.
The mother is not allowed to know who the donor is, but the child has the right, when he or she reaches the age of majority, to find out who donated the sperm.
In Sweden, one of the largest research projects in the world regarding donations is underway.
Hundreds of donors have been interviewed and statistics have been compiled.
Professor Gunilla Sydsjö in Linköping is one of those who leads the work.
Here she lectures on some of what has been concluded.