Many are suggesting the change will discourage donors at a time when blood supplies are perilously low.
“I find it very irresponsible,” she said. “People are doing a good service donating, and to put them at additional risk doesn’t make sense.Semi-retired from Shaw Communications and a volunteer at The Mission, Benoit resumed giving blood regularly in January after hearing about an eight-year-old Arnprior boy, Easton Harris, who has aplastic anemia and was encouraging donations through his Easton’s Hockey Fight for Life campaign.
Others have voiced similar concerns, many suggesting the change will discourage donors at a time when blood supplies are perilously low. CBS says it has just three days’ worth of O-positive and O-negative blood and not much more of other types. There are also 50,000-plus unfilled appointments in August alone.
“We will not stop until they at least bring a day back with mandates, or unless they want to tell these people their blood is not wanted. We’re trying every day to tell Canadian Blood Services that this is not what people want.” McKibbin is also concerned over CBS’s announcement in June that it was stopping processing and banking of cord blood for three months owing to a shortage of processing kits. Cord blood collection provides stem cells used in treatment of such conditions as cancer and anemia.Article content
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