The Star: Plasma clinic plans to open in Toronto in defiance of promised Ontario banThe

Posted on: August 4th, 2016 by webmaster

A pay-for-plasma clinic is opening a downtown Toronto clinic Tuesday to begin training staff in defiance of promised legislation from Ontario’s minority Liberal government that would ban it.

Canadian Plasma Resources will have 15 staff — including medical lab technicians and registered nurses — at its Adelaide St. location and expects to have donors on site within days, chief executive Barzin Bahardoust told the Star Monday.

The clinic will be open “for training purposes and collection of plasma for research purposes,” he said.

“When we get licensed by Health Canada, as long as the regulations in Ontario are not changed, we will compensate donors.”

Read the full article on The Star web site.