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4,180 (2023) Website. blood.ca. [ 1 ] Canadian Blood Services (French: Société canadienne du sang) is a non-profit charitable organization that is independent from the Canadian government. [ 2 ] The Canadian Blood Services was established as Canada's blood authority in all provinces and territories except for Quebec in 1998. [ 3 ]
The tainted blood disaster, or the tainted blood scandal, was a Canadian public health crisis in the 1980s in which thousands of people were exposed to HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products. It became apparent that inadequately-screened blood, often coming from high-risk populations, was entering the system through blood ...
In 2018, approximately 10,000 donations were still urgently needed by 10 March to continue to meet patients' needs. However, Canadian Blood Services noted that the national inventory and days on hand of several blood groups remain at critically low levels. Less than four per cent of eligible donors give blood each year. [234]
Bloodworks Northwest, which supplies blood to more than 90 hospitals in the region, isn’t keeping track of how many newly eligible donors are coming in, said Dr. Kirsten Alcorn, the nonprofit ...
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it finalized a new rule that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood. Under the lat e st guidelines, all potential donors would ...
The provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island had bans in place prior to the enactment of federal legislation. [ 147 ] [ 148 ] [ 149 ] In 2018, the City of Vancouver became the only city in British Columbia to outlaw the practice, [ 150 ] and in 2019 St. Albert became the first City in Alberta to ban the ...
Canada previously had a three-month deferral period before men who have sex with men could donate blood since 2019. [193] On April 28, 2022, Health Canada announced that it had accepted a request by Canadian Blood Services to change that policy and eliminate the three-month waiting period for gay and bi men, for donations of both blood and plasma.
Allow blood and plasma collection facilities to retrieve basic underlying information about a donor to aid and assist in the determination of a donor's eligibility to donate blood or plasma. Allow donor deferral information to be added, updated and deleted via a web page.