How your plasma donation helps

Your donated plasma touches the lives and families of thousands of patients who require life-saving therapies and treatments made from plasma-derived protein products. 

Some plasma is administered in hospital to treat patients with bleeding disorders, trauma and other indications. We collect plasma to meet all of the current hospital patients needs for these treatments.

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There are two main ways donated plasma helps patients across Canada.

1. Plasma for medications

Learn how donated plasma is collected for manufacturing into plasma-derived products that patients across Canada rely on.

2. Plasma for transfusion

Learn how donated plasma is collected for transfusion and administered in hospitals across Canada to treat patients with a variety of medical conditions.

Everything you need to know about donating plasma: A guide for first-timers

Looking to book that first appointment? Great! We’re here for your questions (including ‘what the heck is plasma?’).

Stories of impact

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Plasma recipient standing next to wall outdoors covered with shrubbery

Heartfelt gratitude for the ‘mind-blowing’ support of plasma donors

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Medication made from the pooled plasma of thousands of donors enabled Marcel Lesage to survive Guillain-Barré syndrome
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A woman smiling while sitting in a red chair and holding white bottle caps

Thanking plasma donors for ‘a healthy immune system in a bottle’

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Sabrina Cannella honours her plasma donors by saving bottle caps from the treatments they’ve made possible
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Blood donor holding a red sticker that says “1st time donor”

Thousands across Canada may be newly eligible to donate blood and plasma. Could you be one of them?

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The change affects people who have spent time in areas where the human variant of ‘mad cow’ disease was deemed a risk 
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