Blood Safety (HCV)

Canada's Health Minister Announces Comprehensive Hepatitis C Proposal

Published in Blood Weekly, October 5th, 1998

Canada's Health Minister Allan Rock has presented a comprehensive proposal to his provincial and territorial counterparts to provide better hepatitis C disease prevention and treatment, significantly strengthen blood safety, and help Canadians infected with hepatitis C through the blood system prior to 1986 and after 1990.

The Minister presented the proposal on September 18, 1998, at the annual meeting of Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers of Health being held in Regina.

"With this proposal we are responding in a way that provides security for Canadians in the future and helps those who have been infected by hepatitis C through blood in...

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