transfusion

Activists argue that apart from it being discriminatory, the ban is also irrational because of the high demand for blood transfusions in the country.

Tens of thousands of others, external are believed to have been exposed to hepatitis C, which can cause liver failure and cancer, either through the same treatment or a blood transfusion.

Operation Puerto, an investigation by Spanish police into doping in sport, had connected him to illegal blood transfusion.

Data shows that out of 52 patients given the treatment, 49 did not need another blood transfusion for at least a year of monitoring.

It was named after Charles R. Drew, a distinguished surgeon and former chair of surgery at Howard University whose work focused on blood banking and blood plasma storage and transfusion.