Part of a new Canadian Blood Services plan is to open 11 new CBS-run plasma collection centres across Canada, where donors will not be paid
British Columbia will not allow an international pharmaceutical company to collect blood plasma in the province, despite Canadian Blood Services’ attempts to get the private company past a provincial ban.
At the time of the announcement, CBS and Grifols said the company planned to set up in Ontario and B.C., despite the bans on paid donation, because the laws contained exemptions for CBS to pay donors in emergencies. However, it had not yet been tested whether CBS’s exemption would extend to Grifols on a continuing basis.
Grifols said it is still working with CBS to determine where its centres will be located. “We can confirm, however, that there are no plans for British Columbia at this time,” the company said in an unsigned e-mail. Paying for blood donations is controversial because the practice was blamed as a cause of the tainted blood scandal, in which thousands of Canadians in the 1980s caught HIV and hepatitis C from donated blood. Canadian Blood Services was set up in response to the scandal.
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