Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-18-Speech-3-079"
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"Mr President, I would also like to welcome this report and the new directive. The passing on of contaminated blood can and does have fatal consequences and I welcome strongly the proposals to regulate the transportation of blood and to ensure supervision by qualified staff, which represent an important step forward in this directive.
I would like to thank medical staff at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, both of which are in my constituency, who have given me help and advice so that I could contribute to this directive. They want to convey the importance not only of qualified staff to supervise the process but also of training for all those who handle blood, because human error is the biggest source of accident in this respect.
Finally, the voluntary donation of blood – which is an important principle for us in Britain in particular – has the added benefit of ensuring the highest possible voluntary screening-out of the health risk associated with blood transfusion. We should be thanking and congratulating all those millions of people in Britain and throughout Europe who give blood. We should also appeal to the 94% of people who do not give blood to do so in future."@en1
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