Canada’s blood supply must not be put at risk to benefit surging for-profit plasma collection

The provincial and territorial ministers of health have a duty to operationalize the memorandum of understanding which created the CBS mandate to collect voluntary blood and plasma. CBS cannot quietly abandon its mandate in its quest to satisfy the ever-increasing plasma product market.

The solution is clear. Intervention to protect our future blood supply system is needed urgently, writes Michèle Brill-Edwards. Photograph courtesy of Rawpixel

Opinion

BY MICHèLE BRILL-EDWARDS

August 4, 2022

Voluntary blood donations are down in Canada. With a loss of more than 30,000 donors in the past two years, the Canadian Blood Services recently announced its laudable goal to recruit 100,000 new voluntary donors of blood and plasma within this year to restore our system. The CBS is also building de...

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