CRC pleads guilty to tainted blood charges and funds two projects.HAMILTON -- The Canadian Red Cross The Canadian Red Cross Society is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization. It was established in the fall of 1896 as an affiliate of the British Red Cross Society (then known as the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War). Colonel Dr. has undertaken two initiatives as it pleaded guilty to charges of providing blood products in the 1980s that were infected with (HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. ) and Hepatitis C. The initiatives are: * a $750,000 contribution to establish a scholarship fund intended to provide financial assistance to students in Canada whose lives were affected by the blood tragedy. * $750,000 to establish, and administer a National Medical Error Project dedicated to the eradication of casualties caused by inadequate or improper practices in the health care system. These initiatives accompany an acknowledgement by Dr. Pierre Duplessis, Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Red Cross, that people died or became seriously ill after receiving blood products from the organization. The CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. has transferred its blood operations to Canadian Blood Services Canadian Blood Services is a national, not-for-profit charitable organization that manages the blood supply in all provinces and territories of Canada, outside of Québec, and oversees the country's Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry. and Hema-Quebec; used its proceeds from the transfer to provide $70 million in compensation to those infected. The University of Ottawa |
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