Wombs to Rent ; the Modest Indian Clinic Where Poverty-Stricken Women Are Paid the Equivalent of 10 Years' Salary to Have Babies for Desperate British Couples

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THE tiny Akanksha clinic in the Indian city of Anand is a world away from the slick, state-of-the-art fertility units found in Britain.

A dilapidated two-storey building, it stands in the midst of the chaotic bustle of life in the small, overcrowded city.

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Wombs to Rent ; the Modest Indian Clinic Where Poverty-Stricken Women Are Paid the Equivalent of 10 Years' Salary to Have Babies for Desperate British Couples

Outside its gate, beggars clamour for attention, auto-rickshaws and camel-drawn carts form an aggressive scrum and a thick layer of dust covers everything.

Yet British couples desperate for children are travelling to this unlikely location to pay Indian women to give birth to their babies.

For Pounds 3,000, they can rent a womb for nine months, go home, then when the woman gives birth return to take the child away.

The Akanksha clinic, run by infertility expert Dr Nayna Patel, is pionee...

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