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Finnie calls for improvements to blood testing
November 5, 2008 11:41 AM
Originally published by Scottish Liberal Democrats
Originally published by Scottish Liberal Democrats
div class=field field-type-text field-field-body div class=field-items div class=field-itempCommenting on the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service's warning to the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee that gay men should not be allowed to donate blood, Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson Ross Finnie MSP said:/p pspan class=inline inline-leftimg src=http://www.scotlibdems.org.uk/files/images/Ross-Finnie.thumbnail_0.jpg alt= title= class=image image-thumbnail width=80 height=100 //span"At a time when Scotland is crying out for blood donations, it's extremely disappointing that Ministers have refused to do anything to introduce new and improved testing mechanisms. This could make it safe to lift the blanket ban on gay men donating blood./p p"I have today written to the Public Petitions Committee asking if, as part of their consideration into permitting gay men to make blood donations, they will take on board the need to examine the method of blood testing currently adopted by the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service."/p div class=image-clear/div/div /div /div
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