🇨🇦 HIV risk donor approved twice, and Ottawa still calls this oversight

A donor who disclosed sexual contact with an HIV-positive person was still allowed to give plasma twice at Grifols in Regina after a trainee flipped the screening answer from yes to no. That is not a tiny clerical oops. That is the kind of regime-level negligence you get when public health becomes a box-ticking cartel of regulators, contractors, and imported corporate medicine. Health Canada found the centre non-compliant, with bruised donors waved through, incomplete questionnaires accepted, and ineligible medications ignored, as documents show.

Grifols is a Spain-based for-profit giant operating more than a dozen centres in Canada, and this comes after two donor deaths in Winnipeg in the past year. Yet the sales pitch is still trust the system, the testing is rigorous, the experts are on it. Right. Trudeau-era Canada outsourced competence, imported bureaucracy, and called it modern governance. National health security is now whatever a global plasma corporation and a sleepy regulator say it is after the fact. Canadians get slogans, foreigners get contracts, and standards somehow keep collapsing on schedule.

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