A local advocacy group is issuing a call to bring blood donation back to Northern B.C. and its 300,000 people who want to help patients with life-threatening diseases.
The petition at ourbloodcounts.com calls on Canadian Blood Services to open a new blood plasma donor centre in Prince George to serve the northern two-thirds of the province. With National Blood Donor Week underway, the group points out that Canada collects less than 20 percent of the plasma that patients need from domestic donors, so the need is there.
In the past five years, Canadian Blood Services has opened or planned to add a dozen new plasma centres across the country, but Prince George is not on the list. The city had a Canadian Blood Services whole blood donor centre from 1998 until 2015.
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