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Ontario’s decision to become the lone province to fully fund in-vitro fertilization has proven wildly popular, with clinics taking just weeks to sign up this year’s limit of 5,000 patients — and setting up an almost instant logjam.

The policy took effect late last December, but fertility specialists say they’re booking would-be parents into as late as 2018.

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Clinic caseloads have more than doubled in some instances, as the clientele grows increasingly diverse for a service that normally costs patients up to $10,000 a shot.

Even the many couples who dropped off wait lists after visiting countries with the Zika virus did little to slow uptake on the controversial, $50-million program, fertility doctors say.

“The number of people coming through has been huge,” said Dr. Carl Laskin, a founder of Toronto’s TRIO Fertility clinic. “It is incredibly busy.”

After ballooning costs and evidence of lax standards prompted Quebec to all but abandon its taxpayer-financed IVF plan — Canada’s first — the rest of the country is watching Ontario’s experiment closely.