The world’s first baby factory is being built in India to house hundreds of poor women paid to have children for Western couples unable to conceive.

Potential parents – including Britons – will be able to send sperm or embryos to the one-stop surrogacy shop, before visiting to pick up their new child.

The multi-million-pound clinic will have self-catering apartments for visiting Western couples, a floor for surrogate mothers, offices, delivery rooms, an IVF department and even restaurants and a gift shop.

Dr Nayna Patel (front, centre) is building the world’s largest surrogate house to provide rooms for hundreds of women to carry babies for western couples

Plans for Dr Patel’s new super surrogacy hospital which is expected to house hundreds of Indian women making babies for childless Western couples

The doctor behind the state-of-the-art centre is Nayna Patel, who runs a back-street clinic that accommodates around 100 pregnant women in a single house. She pays each surrogate around £4,950 and receives £17,250 from hopeful parents.

Her programme in Anand, a small city in the state of Gujarat where the new clinic is under construction, has already produced almost 600 babies for rich couples. Dr Patel revealed in a BBC Four documentary last night that she had received death threats and faced accusations of exploiting the poor for profit.

She said: ‘I have faced criticism and I will in the future. According to many, I am controversial. There have been allegations of baby selling, baby-making factory.’
She insisted she was on a feminist mission, saying ‘surrogacy is one woman helping another’.

Surrogate mother Papiya, who works at the Surrogate House, is expecting a baby for the second time – this time it is twins for a couple in the U.S.

Surrogate mother Vasanti, pictured with her husband Ashok, is able to send their daughter Mansi to an English speaking school because of the money earned from surrogacy

Dr Nayna Patel, who currently runs a back street surrogacy house near Gujarat, leads her pregnant surrogate mothers in prayer and lectures them on how to spend their money

She dismissed suggestions that she was exploiting the surrogates. ‘These woman are doing a job,’ she said. ‘It’s a physical job – they are paid for that job.

‘These women know there is no gain without pain.’

Surrogate mother Papiya, who is expecting twins for a couple in America, said she planned to spend her payment on a new house for her family.

‘Having twins means we get a bigger fee,’ she said. ‘Last time I was a surrogate, I bought white goods, a car and lent some to my sister-in-law.’

Another surrogate, Vasanti, said she had been able to send her daughter to a good English-speaking school with the cash she has earned. She is also using her fees to build a new house for her family.

In last night’s documentary, House of Surrogates, Dr Patel was seen praying as she placed embryos in the uterus of a surrogate. In two weeks, a blood test will show if she is pregnant.

Building of the controversial surrogacy house has already begun. As well as rooms for each surrogate mother, it will also house a gift shop and hotel rooms

But the film revealed that there could be also non-medical complications for those involved.

A Canadian named as Barbara, 54, was stuck in India for four months with her newborn son from surrogate Edan before she got the paperwork she needed to take him home.

Barbara, who had tried for 30 years to become a mother, said: ‘Infertility is a medical problem.

‘If people born with bad eyesight get corrective eye glasses, and diabetics get insulin, why can’t we get medical treatment for our problem?’

‘God has appointed me’ says Dr behind ‘rent-a-womb’ factory

Two heavily pregnant surrogate mothers undergo a ‘blessing’ inside the house by a hindu priest before they give birth. They ware paid $8,000 each per child

First meeting: An American woman is handed her baby for the first time; she landed in India days after her son was born by surrogate

 

Barbara, 54, from Canada, tried for 30 years to become a mother without success. She has now had a baby born to a surrogate mother in India

Barbara explains that using a surrogate mother is a solution to her medical problem of infertility

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