Table 3.

Requirements for registration of a genetic clinic

Place	Equipment	Employees
A room with an area of 20 m2 with appropriate aseptic arrangements	Equipment and accessories necessary for carrying out clinical examination by an obstetrician/gynecologist	A gynecologist with adequate experience in prenatal diagnostic procedures (should have performed at least 20 procedures under the supervision of a gynecologist experienced in the procedure, which is going to be carried out, for example, chorionic villi biopsy, amniocentesis, cordocentesis, and others indicated at B above)
	Equipment, accessories necessary for other facilities required for operations envisaged in the act
	An ultrasonography machine*
	Appropriate catheters and equipment for carrying out chorionic villi aspirations per vagina or per abdomen*
	Appropriate sterile needle for amniocentesis or cordocentesis*
	A suitable fetoscope with appropriate accessories for fetoscopy, fetal skin or organ biopsy, or fetal blood sampling shall be optional
	Equipment for dry and wet sterilization	A radiologist or registered medical practitioner for carrying out ultrasonography. The required experience shall be 100 cases under supervision of a similarly qualified person experienced in these techniques
	Equipment for carrying out emergency procedures such as evacuation of uterus or resuscitation in case of need
	Platforms for FISH, NGS, and CGH arrays

*These constitute the minimum requirement of equipment for conducting the relevant procedure. FISH=Fluorescence in situ hybridization, NGS=Next-generation sequencing, CGH=Comparative genomic hybridization