{"id":857110,"date":"2026-08-13T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857110\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:08:18","slug":"scrutinized-private-clinic-pauses-plasma-collection-across-canada-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857110\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrutinized private clinic pauses plasma collection across Canada \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 The private donation clinic Grifols has paused plasma collection in Canada in the months after two people who donated plasma at their Winnipeg clinics died.<\/p>\n

Health Canada says its investigations found several compliance concerns, which led it to issue a notice of a non-compliance rating on Wednesday for Grifols\u2019 Taylor Avenue site in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

The federal health department says those compliance concerns need to be addressed and it welcomes the operators\u2019 decision to temporarily close its collection sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHealth Canada says it gave a non-compliance rating to Grifols, a private clinic which has paused plasma collection across Canada. In this Friday, June 12, 2020 file photo, a doctor holds a bag of blood plasma donated at blood bank in La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Photo\/Juan Karita, FILE)<\/p>\n

Health Canada also says this will have no impact on the safety and security of Canada\u2019s blood supply.<\/p>\n

The for-profit company did not respond immediately to requests for comment but told the Globe and Mail it\u2019s pausing plasma operations because of \u201cunfounded attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Health Canada said in March that it would investigate the deaths of two people who donated plasma at two locations in Winnipeg run by Grifols.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHealth Canada will continue to work collaboratively with Grifols to ensure these concerns are addressed before any plasma collection sites can be reopened,\u201d Health Canada spokesperson Emilie Gauduchon-Campbell wrote in an emailed statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

Health Canada has said the deaths happened in October and January.<\/p>\n

Grifols said in March that it had no reason to believe there was a correlation between the deaths and plasma donation.<\/p>\n

The company said it followed protocols in both cases and was conducting its own review in addition to supporting the government investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The private donation clinic Grifols has paused plasma collection in Canada in the months after two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-857110","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\/857110","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=857110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}