Edmonton Sun | 31May2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/letters/2010/05/28/14177691.html
Public safety vs PR
Re: “Be bloody careful,” Mindelle Jacobs, Edmonton Sun, May 26, 2010.
As the prototype for carelessness in collecting blood, nothing can
match Montreal’s Red Cross in the 1980s. It held regular clinics at a
Metro station in the heart of the Gay Village and the red-light
district, beside a university many Haitians attended and near an area
notorious for heroin addicts. It was, in the words of medical reporter
Andre Picard, a “veritable headquarters of the ‘4-H Club.’ ” This may
not have been a medically sound practise in view of what we now know,
but where political correctness is a paramount consideration it had
raised it to a new level. Let’s hope that in future public safety will
trump PR.
Orest Slepokura
(They also didn’t have
the info then we have now.)