Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province is going ahead with a plan to fully fund in vitro fertility treatments for women.

The province will fund up to three cycles of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments by the end of the spring, Bolduc said Thursday during a news conference in Montreal.

Bolduc said he is happy to be able to give this gift to couples trying to conceive, but he said it will also save the province up to $30 million a year on money being spent to treat premature babies born as a result of fertility treatments.

The plan will include regulations limiting to three the number of embryos that can be implanted in a woman's womb during one cycle of treatment -- a move that will help reduce the number of multiple births, said Bolduc.

The program will cost $32 million its first year, but funding will increase to $80 million in the next three to four years, Bolduc said.

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