About 20 healthcare activists and Canadian Blood Services workers joined an information picket at Scotia Square in downtown Halifax this morning to protest the potential arrival of a private, for-profit blood supply system.
Canadian Plasma Resources (CPR), a Saskatchewan company that pays plasma donors, has announced that it hopes to set up shop in Nova Scotia.
Introducing a for-profit company into our health system, and paying donors for giving blood doesn’t sit well with the protesters.
Read the full article on The Nova Scotia Advocate web site.