Facts

Facts about blood.

Half of all Canadians will either need blood or know someone who will need blood at some point in their lives.

Yet only four percent of Canadians donate. Our job is to change that. At Canadian Blood Services, we’re responsible for recruiting and collecting blood, plasma, and platelets at 36 permanent collection sites and more than 14,000 donor clinics every year.

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52 percent of Canadians say they or a family member have needed blood or blood products. This was for surgery or medical treatment.

You or your family members may at some point require blood products during a medical intervention. Polling result was collected via random phone calls to Canadians in all regions and across all demographic groups. and Polling is accurate plus or minus 2 percent 19 times out of 20.

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Facts

Every person’s body contains about five litres of blood (or 10.5 pints)

More than 4.5 million patients need blood transfusions each year in the U.S. and Canada.

Half of all Canadians will either need blood or know someone who will need blood at some point in their lives.

52 percent of Canadians say they or a family member have needed blood or blood products. This was for surgery or medical treatment.