Closing the blood plasma collection clinic that opened last month in Saskatoon, and banning any others that pay donors, must be done in the name of safety and learning from the past, said the federal NDP’s health critic.
“In the ’80s, roughly 30,000 Canadians were infected with Hepatitis and HIV because of a tainted blood scandal,” federal NDP Health Critic Don Davies said Monday in a prepared statement.
“Clear lessons were learned from this tragedy: profits must not compete with safety when it comes to blood. So why are the Liberals permitting a for-profit, paid-donor blood plasma clinic to operate, putting Canadians at risk once again?”
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