Canadian Blood Services
Canadian Blood Services

Annual Report 2018–2019

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Helping people live longer, healthier lives

In the two decades since our founding, the focus of Canadian Blood Services has expanded beyond blood to encompass the life essentials for transfusion and transplantation, including plasma, stem cells, and organs and tissues. We work each day to provide effective, reliable products and services that meet the highest standards of safety and quality — and to deliver, alongside our health-care partners, the best possible treatment and care to patients.

Gurjit Cheema
Kidney transplant recipient

Portrait of Gurjit Cheema
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Portrait of Gurjit Cheema and Shak Pawar

It’s important that people see what a difference it’s made. You get to breathe again.”

When Gurjit Cheema needed a kidney transplant, her husband, Shak Pawar, was there for her, offering one of his kidneys to another patient as part of the virtuous circle of paired donation.

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Portrait of Daljit Sanders

As a South Asian, my chances of finding a suitable match were far lower than for a Caucasian.”

A stem cell transplant has allowed Daljit Sanders to recover from leukemia and resume her career. She’s also embraced a vital new mission: inspiring more donors to help increase ethnic diversity in the Canadian Blood Services Stem Cell Registry.

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