About 7,000 customers will have their mobile phones blocked in 13 days by telecommunications operator Du.
The company has started to alert customers whose phones have unauthorised International Mobile Equipment Identity (Imei) numbers. The blocking process will begin on May 15 and continue until May 21.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority issued directives to ban duplicate Imei numbers last year. Du's latest move marks the second phase of efforts to block illegal, fake handsets from their network.
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Dr Amal Khalid Alias revealed a recent case of a woman with daughters, who specifically wanted a boy.
A semen analysis of the father showed abnormal sperm so the couple required IVF.
Out of 21 eggs collected, six were unused leaving 15 suitable for IVF.
A specific procedure was used, called intracytoplasmic sperm injection where a single sperm cell is inserted into the egg.
On day three of the process, 14 embryos were biopsied for gender selection.
The next day, a pre-implantation genetic report revealed four normal male embryos, three female and seven abnormal samples.
Day five of the treatment saw two male embryos transferred to the patient.
The woman recorded a positive pregnancy test two weeks later.
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