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As a blood donor with Canadian Blood Services, you form a vital link in Canada's lifeline, helping many Canadians wake up healthy each day.
We recruit and collect blood, plasma and platelet donations at over 13,000 donation events every year. We have 35 permanent donor centres and over 4000 mobile donor centres across Canada.
Am I eligible to donate blood? Great question! Take our two-minute eligibility quiz to find out if you can donate blood. If you are determined to be eligible online, you will be able to book your first appointment.
Canadian Blood Services welcomes and encourages all individuals who are eligible to join Canada’s Lifeline and become regular blood, platelet and plasma donors. We recognize, however, there may be physical and process barriers to donation that currently exist in our donor centres.
We welcome and encourage people who are Deaf, deafened, and hard of hearing to become regular blood and plasma donors. Canadian Blood Services standard blood donation is approximately 450 mL, slightly less than half a litre or two cups. The average adult has about 5 litres.
We recruit and collect blood, plasma and platelet donations at over 13,000 donation events every year. We have 35 permanent donor centres and over 4000 mobile donor centres across Canada.
Canadian Blood Services provides blood and blood products for transfusion, manages a formulary of plasma protein and related products used in a wide array of medical conditions, and also manages stem cell registry services and cord blood banking, on behalf of all provincial and territorial governments except Quebec.
There’s a lot to know when it comes to blood donation, and we understand that it can feel overwhelming. That’s why we created our blood donation cheat sheet. This tool is designed to help you understand the information easily, get informed quickly and then, we hope, register as a donor.
Book now to donate blood and plasma. Canadian Blood Services’ confidential donor questionnaire captures important and relevant information about you and your donation and helps determine if you are eligible to donate blood, plasma and/or platelets.
Recipients of blood and blood products (and sexual partners) - You are now eligible to donate blood after six months of receiving your last transfusion of blood or blood products. That previous deferral period was one year.