announced the deal Wednesday with Grifols, an international pharmaceutical headquartered in Spain, which began to purchase facilities in Canada in 2020.
CBS says the deal is part of its plan to create a more stable domestic supply of blood plasma, a straw-coloured fluid that is used for transfusions and as a key ingredient in life-saving medication. The blood-collection agency, which serves all provinces except Quebec, currently collects about 15 per cent of its plasma needs in Canada and buys the rest from the global market. CBS has been constructing additional collection centres to get to 25 per cent self-sufficiency, but the agency says the deal with Grifols will allow it to source more than 50 per cent of its plasma needs within the country.
CBS said in a news release that the agreement with Grifols ensures that plasma collected in Canada is kept in Canada, including the pharmaceutical products, such as immunoglobulins, that are made with Canadian plasma. Grifols bought a manufacturing facility in Montreal in 2020. “This agreement aligns a commercial industry leader with the national blood system to do what patients need us to do: fast-track the path Canadian Blood Services is on to improved sufficiency, protect our national blood system and ensure a domestic supply of immunoglobulins that patients in Canada can count on,” Graham Sher, chief executive officer of CBS, said in a statement.
They’ve being doing this for sometime how do you think their CEO makes almost $1million annually before perks especially working for a non-profit organization. Will they now loose their non-profit tax exception?
That’s good. It will take the stress off hospitals.
Wha da bloodclot?!
The next step in the great reset after hedonism and idolatry is blood sacrifices.
It is about time.
You can't have my precious plasma
What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe it’s a good idea to keep these materials domestic? Seems like an obvious security risk.
Go figure.