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Plasma
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Plasma
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For many, plasma is the only treatment.

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Organs & Tissues
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Organs & Tissues
for Life

More than 4,000 people in Canada are waiting for an organ transplant.

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Wai Yin

Blood recipient

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Sabrina

Plasma recipient

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Tom

Stem cell recipient

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Kathleen

Organ recipient

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This donor’s rare blood travelled 6,000 kilometres to save a life


Jason Daum first learned of his exceptionally rare blood type after one of his first donations in years was selected for special tests

How an Indigenous stem cell donor saved a life on Canada’s opposite coast


Veronica, who is Mi’kmaw from Cape Breton, was a stem cell match for Judee, a woman of Métis heritage on Vancouver Island

Two-time kidney recipient lives life to the fullest to honour his donors


Stefan Baldwinson’s second transplant was enabled by a program for ‘highly sensitized’ patients who are difficult to match

1,000 of the hardest-to-match patients have received a kidney transplant thanks to cross-Canada organ sharing program


07/25/2024
  |  
News release
(OTTAWA) – Canadian Blood Services, on behalf of Canada’s organ and tissue donation and transplantation community, is excited to announce that the Highly Sensitized Patient (HSP) program has facilitated 1,000 kidney transplants.

Canadian Blood Services teams up with Department of National Defence and Veterans Affairs Canada to support soldiers in the field


07/10/2024
  |  
News release
When a soldier is seriously wounded in battle, they typically need to be treated early with blood and plasma to improve their likelihood of survival, but because of the way our blood components are currently formulated they cannot always be delivered quickly in the field.

National blood inventory

We manage the national supply of blood products for all the provinces and territories (excluding Quebec). Many variables can impact our inventory such as weather, holidays or tragic events. Below is an overview of our inventory levels across all blood types. 

 

  • Good supply
    24
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type AB positive

  • Good supply
    16
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type AB negative

  • Good supply
    8
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type A positive

  • Good supply
    6
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type A negative

  • Good supply
    10
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type B positive

  • Good supply
    3
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type B negative

  • Good supply
    7
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type O positive

  • Good supply
    3
    days of inventory on hand.

    Inventory level for blood type O negative