Mythbusters - PAID PLASMA SAFETY SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN CANADA

“Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec have determined FACT: Canadian Plasma Resources will sell that they are unable to collect sufficient plasma to meet today’s our plasma to the United States. [...] In the event of a plasma crisis or a plasma shortage, Canada will not be able to safeguard our own plasma supply. [...] CANADA’S SUPPLY OF PLASMA WILL BE INCREASED In Justice Krever’s report into Canada’s tainted blood scandal, “A paid plasma market is essential to ensuring enough supply of the several recommendations were lifesaving therapies Canadians need”.7“(Canadian Blood Services is) offered: developing…strategies to increase the amount of plasma that we collect in this country”.8 1. [...] to compete for plasma donors when CBS is trying to increase voluntary ● Access to blood and blood donations? products should be free and universal. [...] The best way to protect the US blood supply is to screen blood medicines from the US or Europe which is often made from the plasma of donors using a donor history questionnaire and asking paid donors, there is no evidence that paying donors in Canada will about recent travel to areas where Zika is spreading.