Sperm bank rejects claims that medical students forced to donate
Hebei Human Sperm Bank hits back, saying donation was voluntary
The students were at the Hebei Human Sperm Bank to participate in a volunteer research project on sperm quality, not because they were forced to donate, a spokesman of the facility said on Wednesday. He was responding to an internet post by a college student surnamed Jiang.
The blogger on Monday said his school, Shijiazhuang People’s Medical College, took students to the sperm bank, according to the article.
Jiang said he heard his teacher saying: “I am already pretty nice to you guys. Once you go there, I leave it entirely to you on whether to donate or not, but students in other classes have no choice.”
A photo attached to the Sina Weibo post showed a dozen of people in student uniforms walking towards the sperm bank.
Two other photos showed the forms he said students were forced to fill out whether they donated their sperm or not. One was a letter of consent and the other a volunteer registration form - both were titled “Hebei college students’ sperm quality studies and data management".