The Globe and Mail: Paying donors for plasma: Have we forgotten about tainted blood?

Posted on: August 11th, 2016 by webmaster

Gobsmacked.

That’s the only rational response to news that a) a private company plans to set up shop in Toronto to buy blood plasma and; b) it is perfectly legal for them to do so.

Have we already forgotten the tainted-blood tragedy – a debacle that left more than 20,000 Canadians infected with HIV and hepatitis C, and that has cost taxpayers more than $5-billion in compensation?

Read the full article on the Globe and Mail web site.