THE HAGUE: A Dutch medical institution announced an investigation Tuesday after discovering that up to 26 women may have been fertilized by the wrong sperm cells at its IVF treatment laboratory.

A “procedural error” between mid-April 2015 and mid-November 2016 during the in vitro fertilization was to blame, the University Medical Center in Utrecht said in a statement.

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