For Immediate Release February 20, 2024 TORONTO – OPSEU/SEFPO condemns the announcement by Canadian Blood Services that for-profit multinational pharmaceutical company Grifols will open paid plasma collection sites in Whitby, Cambridge, Hamilton in late 2024 and 2025. Grifols will be operating under an undisclosed 15-year deal with Canadian Blood Services to privatize plasma collection in […]
  • GreyEyedGhost
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    9 months ago

    I agree with your final statement with respect to cadavers, as well.

    Someone has a rare condition that leads to some scientific insight that makes a researcher or company rich, and they get nothing. People make tens of thousands of dollars processing bodies for organ transplants, and the donor’s family get a thank you note.

    Let’s not pretend that the medical tissue harvesting and usage system isn’t for-profit. The only people not getting ahead in the process are the people literally giving of themselves for the sake of others.