An apparatus for transferring an ovum from a follicle with a double lumen needlehaving at the distal needle end an aspiration lumen for removing an ovum from afollicle and a flushing lumen, the double lumen needle comprising an outer tubewith an internally located inner tube that extends over at least part of the lengthof the outer tube, one of the lumens being bounded by the inner surface of the innertube and the other of the two lumens by the space between the outer surface of theinner tube and the inner surface of the outer tube, and a connector having an outletat a second connector end for discharging the flushing fluid with possibly anovum to the exterior and having a channel means that connects the outlet with theaspiration lumen and a flushing inlet for supplying the flushing fluid, whereinthe two fluid pathways within the connector and the double lumen needle are separatedfrom each other, and the inner tube comprises a deformable material. The lumenof the inner tube is the aspiration lumen and the inner tube comprises a depressibleportion that is depressible under the influence of a pressure difference betweenthe aspiration lumen and the flushing lumen and the flushing lumen is the spacebetween the interior surface of the outer tube and the exterior surface of thedepressible portion.
