An elderly blood donor has been turned away from a donation center in Scotland because he refused to answer whether he was pregnant or not.
The man, a grandfather, had previously been donating blood on a regular basis without issue.
To make matters worse Scotland is currently experiencing a shortage of blood donors and could use as many new donors as possible.
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Via The Daily Mail:
“Over nearly 50 years, Leslie Sinclair has given a formidable 125 pints of blood.
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But on his last trip he was turned away after refusing to answer a question on whether or not he was pregnant.
Mr Sinclair, 66, was told to fill in a form which asked whether he was expecting a child or had been pregnant in the past six months.
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When he complained that as a man in his 60s this question did not apply and he should not have to answer it, Mr Sinclair said staff at the clinic told him they could not accept his blood.
The stand-off took place as NHS England launched a campaign earlier this week to recruit a million more blood donors over the next five years after numbers fell during the pandemic. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) began a drive earlier this month to find 16,000 new donors in the coming year.
It emerged last night that all potential donors are asked if they are pregnant to ‘promote inclusiveness’ and because pregnancy is ‘not always visually clear’.
Angry at the refusal to take his blood, Mr Sinclair walked away and last night told of his frustration at the ‘nonsensical’ decision.”
This is unbelievable.
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The people running this blood donation center are truly mad.
To have health professionals think that there is even a remote possibility that a 66 year old grandfather could be pregnant should be very disturbing to everyone.
It is truly scary to think that doctors, nurses, medical technicians and other would be making medical decisions for patients based on their delusional leftist ideology rather than science.
We live in strange times and it is increasingly clear that the vast majority of countries in the “west” are being led by people who are insane.