An Ontario-based company that pays people to donate blood plasma — a practice banned in two provinces — is set to make New Brunswick its next centre of operation, fuelling an ongoing ethical debate. Canadian Plasma Resources is looking to western and Atlantic provinces, including New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, after legislation in Ontario shuttered […]
Sure, we have a law that prohibits organ sales, but in truth, selling blood and selling body parts are at the same end of that economic ideological spectrum. After the supply was found contaminated in the 1980s and ’90s, the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada opposed people selling their blood. […]
Paid is private, meaning that the only goal of collecting plasma would be for a pharmaceutical company to make a profit off of Canadian blood. CBS was born from the deaths of thousands of Canadians because of the tainted blood crisis. This public blood system has been part of our social contract for almost twenty […]
Introducing a paid-donor system for blood products could compromise Canada’s blood supply and is not justified, a group of physicians says. The chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare said she was shocked by the news that a company in Ontario was planning to pay for plasma. “The critical issue here is opening up our blood […]
En Colombie-Britannique, la porte-parole néo-démocrate en matière de santé, Judy Darcy, veut interdire l’installation de cliniques privées qui payent pour des dons de plasma sanguin, comme il en existe en Saskatchewan. Elle a déposé un projet de loi privé en ce sens, mardi matin, à l’instar du Québec et de l’Ontario. Un texte de Julie […]
VICTORIA — A group that fought to ban pay-for-plasma clinics in Ontario has taken its fight to British Columbia, joining the NDP Opposition in its call against allowing such facilities in the province. Members of BloodWatch.org were in the legislature Tuesday, when health critic Judy Darcy introduced a private member’s bill in hopes of banning […]
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) aren’t doing their job, so it’s time the Alberta government steps in. Canadian Blood Services are in the news again. You might have seen the concerns raised over the private pay-for-plasma clinic opening in Saskatchewan. Well now CBS are going one step further, suggesting that “competition” may require them to also […]
Advocates for blood safety and health care held a joint media conference earlier today calling on the federal government to revoke the license of Canadian Plasma Resources and implement the recommendations of the Krever Inquiry which called for blood and blood products to be collected from voluntary, non-renumerated donors. Read the full article on the Saskatchewan […]
The debate over paid plasma can be complex, as is the conversation about what impact it could have on supply. A pay-for-plasma clinic recently opened in Saskatoon where people are given $25 credit cards in exchange for a donation, and there have been conversations across the country over the implications of these kinds of clinics. […]
The conversation about pay-for-plasma clinics is intensifying in Canada, and here in Alberta. Right now, Canadians donate their blood and plasma voluntarily through Canadian Blood Services – they do not receive money for it. Canadian Blood Services is a not-for-profit government-funded agency that oversees the country’s blood supply. But a private pay-for-plasma company, Canadian Plasma […]
The CEO of a company that opened a controversial pay-for-plasma clinic in Saskatchewan a month ago hopes to expand to Alberta in the next four years, but Alberta’s health minister says she’s not excited about the idea of monetary incentives for blood products. Read the full article on the Meridian Booster web site.
The conversation in Alberta comes after B.C.’s health minister recently said he’s open to allowing a pay-for-plasma clinic in B.C. and Saskatchewan’s health minister said he supports the new clinic in that province. Ontario and Quebec are the only provinces to have banned compensated plasma donations. A private pay-for-plasma clinic has existed in Winnipeg for […]
Members of a national lobby group will travel to Edmonton next week to urge Alberta’s health minister to ban private, for-profit plasma clinics. Kat Lanteigne, co-Founder of BloodWatch.org, wants to see Alberta follow in Ontario’s footsteps and pass legislation that bans payment for plasma donors. She said she’ll be meeting with the health minister’s office […]
Following a controversial launch in Saskatchewan, the CEO of a pay-for-plasma clinic is looking to expand to Alberta. But the province’s health boss isn’t thrilled with idea. Canadian Plasma Resources CEO Barzin Bahardoust said his company is considering long-term expansion to Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba after opening a Saskatoon clinic in February that adds $25 […]
Following the tainted blood scandal of the 1980s and the Krever Commission, Canada’s national blood system was established on the principle of voluntary donation through an agreement by the federal, provincial and territorial governments. That’s why I’m writing today to outline the steps our government is taking to prohibit the operation of private paid plasma […]
Ontario’s health minister is vowing to stamp out business that pays donors for blood and plasma, making an enemy of blood money. Deb Matthews says she’ll crack down on any payments she says threaten the supply’s integrity by siphoning donors to private clinics. “We don’t allow the sale of eggs, sperm, body parts and we […]