{"id":590983,"date":"2026-04-08T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:45:09","slug":"manitoba-medical-examiner-echoes-health-canadas-probe-into-deaths-of-plasma-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590983\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba medical examiner echoes Health Canada&#8217;s probe into deaths of plasma donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Manitoba\u2019s chief medical examiner says it has completed an autopsy on a person who died after donating plasma at a Winnipeg facility.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Stephanie Holfeld says the office did not identify anything that was inconsistent with a recently completed <a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/03\/no-connection-between-plasma-donations-and-deaths-but-stricter-rules-to-be-implemented-in-grifols-health-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">investigation by Health Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency launched its own probe into the deaths of two people in recent months who donated plasma at locations run by Grifols, a private collection company that pays donors.<\/p>\n<p>It has said that found no link between the plasma donation process and the deaths of the two donors based on all information made available to it.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner\u2019s office says the second case was thoroughly investigated and it determined an autopsy was not required based on the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>The province has faced calls to enact a provincial ban on paid plasma donations, but a decision has not been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The office of Manitoba\u2019s chief medical examiner says it has completed an autopsy on a person who died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-590983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}