The Malta Paediatric Association has unanimously approved a resolution calling on MPs to ensure the new in-vitro fertilisation law allows a maximum of two fertilised eggs to be implanted.
This would minimise the risk of medical complications for women and newborn infants.
The association said that multiple pregnancies were associated with increased neonatal deaths and brain damage in children.
Lack of regulation in Malta over the years had led to the transferring of more than two fertilised eggs into the woman.
This resulted in an excessive number of multi-foetal pregnancies, which gave rise to “excessively high rates of neonatal deaths, disabling impairment in children and human suffering”.
The association commended the Government’s decision to regulate IVF, something it requested seven years ago.