Saskatchewan

CEO of CBS speaks out against private-paid plasma clinics. Confirms that they harm the voluntary donor base in Saskatchewan where the private clinic set-up. PLEASE READ CBC’s national news story here.

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NDP health critic Don Davies is calling on Health Minister Jane Philpott to close the country’s first paid-donor blood clinic in Saskatoon. “Blood must always be considered a public resource, not a private one for exploitation and profit,” Davies told reporters in Ottawa Monday. Canadian Plasma Resources opened its doors on Feb. 18 and plans […]

Canadian Plasma Resources (CPR), a company that pays for plasma donations, is hoping to set up a shop in Saskatoon. It’s controversial, and has some people raising concerns. The plasma is used for manufacturing drugs known as plasma protein products. The most controversial part is that CPR pays people who donate. The practice was banned […]

A controversial new plasma collecting facility in Saskatoon has officially opened its doors. The state-of-the-art facility is being met with both criticism regarding safety and kudos from patient groups. Tens of thousands of patients across the country are estimated to rely on medicines manufactured from human plasma, one of the major components of blood. Read […]

A union representing more than 13,000 Saskatchewan health care workers says human tissue should not be “turned into a commodity to be bought and sold.” The Canadian Union of Public Employees says private, for-profit blood donor clinics should be banned in Saskatchewan. CUPE Saskatchewan president Tom Graham says government should promote and expand the voluntary […]

Tainted blood survivors and activists joined NDP MPs in Ottawa Monday in demanding that federal Health Minister Jane Philpott close down Canada’s first private blood clinic and refrain from allowing more to open. At a press conference on Parliament Hill, Mike McCarthy, a former vice president of the Canadian Hemophilia Society and a tainted 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 […]

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 […]

“There is nothing for us to buy from Canadian Plasma Resources,” Sher said. “And what we are doing is expanding our own plasma collections and we already have relationships with fractionators where our plasma goes and we bring the finished drugs back into Canada for distribution to patients.” In the event Canadian Plasma Resources did […]

Money for blood can be a controversial practice anywhere in the world, but especially so in Canada. Yet Saskatchewan is set to open the first for-profit plasma donation clinic in the country. The tainted blood scandal of the ’80s looms large over the discussion of paid-for donations after upwards of 30,000 Canadians were infected with […]

The federal NDP wants Ottawa to ban plasma clinics that pay donors, but the Saskatchewan health minister says he’s OK with plans for one in his province. New Democrat health critic Don Davies says he’s worried about safety. “We’ve been down this road before,” Davies said in an interview with The Canadian Press. Read the […]

Nurses are the latest group to join opposition to a private, for-profit plasma donor clinic in Saskatchewan. Tracy Zambory, president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, has written a letter to federal Health Minister Jane Philpott that says nurses believe the clinic poses a serious safety risk to the blood supply. Canadian Plasma Resources opened […]

A company that pays people for donating blood is about to open its first Saskatchewan clinic. Canadian Plasma Resources earlier tried to set up clinics in Toronto and Hamilton but the Ontario government moved to ban payment for blood, saying it would erode Canada’s voluntary blood collection system. However, the Saskatchewan government is welcoming the […]

A start-up company is looking to establish a new business model in Saskatchewan. In worsening economic times, that might seem like great news. But if their business model is one that takes advantage of people’s poverty and may undermine voluntary blood donations, then the prospect is far less appealing. Last year Canadian Plasma Resources came […]