as a sign of commitment to the community. especially if more than one hundred million donations are collected each year worldwide in two thousand and fifteen. the swiss red cross registered three hundred eleven thousand donations the figure diminishes each year and they're constantly seeking new donors their message is clear giving blood saves lives. southwest of much of new. sickish or it might add to. the. more similar to do dishes. that's going to one. first who've come in. to build a pool on the naked crucial not to get into. floor. if.

they have blood is a quite peculiar juice said devil with glee but he's not the only want to be interested health is also an industry and blood donations are subject to the laws of the market. but. it will it's just. that when you don't before giving blood the swiss donors must complete a medical question ear and give their informed consent in particular there is one line at the end of the form a sentence in small letters i am aware that some components of my donation may be used for the production of drugs only a few donors read this line though it's crucial in reality most of the donated blood is soldier private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise. i hope. six thousand looks bent on per yard. does seem to fold luge bend than

does iced in these the boots bend and since not in a loop in this plus an. investment need a plethora. and good thoughts to them on that include tile in the system plus muscle doesn't look at. these magnet detect indenture tail and get it off to the indian. ticed. the uncool some due to low stop and decent these as well the woman is at stealth and uses the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the so going on to talk till needed induced to leave us in fear. look they're on to come and tell them the plasma fractionation industry these are the pharmaceutical companies that buy eighty thousand liters a plasma from the red cross each year the humanitarian institution makes nearly ten

million swiss francs from the sale by the donors aware of it. is some kind of are needed. yesterday between a song top boss. saying by no memo the boss of the shows i. don't want to so on a deal said if it could have done it most on a p.r. priscus assault i'd vernia. this been a case wait he said on his appeal to the summit and watching. them when you don't do some shopping assault first discovery the majority of the donors blood is sold to pharmaceutical industries. the industry is so interested in carlos's blood for a specific reason it's liquid part called plasma contains sought after proteins. they are used to make very expensive and profitable drugs. who are the players

behind this industry. we decided to track the plasma trade. to see it. typically fifty five percent of our blood is made up of. plastic. colored liquid poison the whole of life that transports water and nutrients to all sounds and. it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent. of the plasma industry is healing chant a handful of companies share the world market baxter in the usa bearing in australia and your foals in spring and the company farm in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films material is produced by the perfect bio reactor developed over millions of years of evolution the human body for these companies plasma is nothing but a raw material and very lucrative to europe and the professional term is

fractionation the name of the procedure that transforms donor's plasma into drugs to do this with a callback to freeze and mix thousands of liters of human plasma these companies control a market which is worth seventeen billion dollars and growing steadily history so that the plasma gong margaery the president and co-founder of dr pharma is a very discrete person forbes estimates his fortune at six billion dollars this is one of his very rare public appearances how do you see the future developing these products lifesaving drugs and they will be required for some patient groups as a lifelong therapy and presumably they're covered by in most insurance they have to be as to very expensive but that is also the other part of the same from the same calling them many countries who simply cannot afford to put. at this kind of level

of treatment to the population yet at least it sounds easier to say replies will be available enough to just go through your population your country the ploughs well and you'll be in good shape when you make those products it's not the case. remains a family business dedicated to the way it's going to patients to go. in that like adventure. throughout the world the lives of millions of patients depend on these treatments tomorrow is one of them today she's receiving her treatment at a hospital in bear since childhood she suffers from an immune deficiency that causes repeated infections. yeah thanks to her plasma based treatment tamar's life has become easier so much so that it would be difficult for her to go without. and they

may say shut up it's very hard. to escape was quick. to say. that today. we had our. tumor. you know. but i'm ok. a safer more. to get their footing not there when my head. clerk would have on the soap and make up but so you don't ever. get up to thank them kindly softly. on them to can also flash to seek.

to clean that is something to see. as a. feat to see them. react to. spend an hour through just mean america to come out of the know coming. very muscular to madrid. at that. pace of. that from people call. this moment that you are special. place and. where is her life changing drug from where is the blood in the drug from from swiss donors. i want me. to race me. next they. need to know what.

the plasmas origin isn't public information it's a trade secret we decide to visit swiss medic this is the swiss authority in charge of drug control including their origin these expert analyzed plasma samples each week as well as the blood derived products that are used in hospitals. in profit. is they not only can. and it's just. been down to. the. he's known stephen no he said he. will be down to taste. it but the bait but the. world food. is copenhagen didn't do it over there plus the could be subdued going to endorse while throwing a hot. soup buffel to feel.

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with the country at a crossroads of the island is on the rise. west twenty fifth street the. register. used in the drug sold in switzerland comes from here. this blood collection center belongs to the australian company c.s.l. donate plasma save lives earn up to two hundred dollars a month. there are donor ads everywhere which tell us that the volunteers are paid for their blood. as opposed to most european countries the. compensation for blood donations this practice is legal. we enter the premises which are under heavy surveillance impossible to. with the static kill just yank it just

taking shit you drain me you know we'd be from the outside from the case as the creation of class a strange good. yeah. the center is in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. cleveland is a devastated city the financial crisis of two thousand and eight was a fatal blow. pastor lester williams knows the reality of life in this neighborhood many of his church followers sell their plasma. t.v. here that. would

i guess. is legal so i will probably get it does when people just do it but what you strange is that companies they continue to call this a donation. but what she's a donation way when you pay someone is not a deal because. it's not it's not free just with donation should be should be for ever do they do exploiting their exploring people who are in whatever condition the is economically. and actually now to do a nation actually paying for the i'll be in charge of acute awareness of the charge and. for the pleasant soul to make your money on it and both work you know the little good they're giving to these people is not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented c.e.o.'s out. we

also find pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that too. bad of a bull market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. budget right now where for thirty two bucks for forty five dollars for a full fifty dollars a month sure so that's a lot of the same ballpark. true to twenty five. and i found out that i can with a plasma or you know or you know that's the problem when you're on tight budget it's a fragile thing you know. we wanted to go inside with him to speak with the people in charge this turned out to be impossible the hostility increased the closer we got to the center. looking at you you were and public property

it is never that is now my friend. so we question donors outside in the parking lot. first those this kind of like the extra money thing you know just to get a little money on the new. indian it just kind of you know became a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first five times as a new customer in after day on tuesdays or thursdays any two days a week you get twenty dollars and then it go up to forty dollars along if you've been donating and now for a year it's starting to let you know. that's a lot yes this school. is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash the. no one does it for any kind of moral reasons no one does it for them or no one no one does it because it helps people it's one

of the side of things is that in. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donors credit card is credited. you know if you know. this is the plasma burn color. almost. like a regular. they put money on your car immediately after you get done. sometimes. they forget to put the money on your car and you've got to call the number on your car you know because if you don't call the number on your card i'm still going to be without money. after the economic crisis donations stored in the usa going from fifteen million in two thousand and seven to thirty two million in two thousand and fourteen look

schafer is a sociologist at michigan university. when we look at the numbers of families reporting cash incomes below two dollars per person per day in any given month. it well more than doubles over a fifteen year period and when we look at the number of families who are who are on food stamps it actually quadrupled emergency food assistance goes through the roof so when all of these things are put in the same direction and. we walked into the plasma clinic down the street and just ask people why are you here what's going on people lost their jobs haven't been able to find work you know in many cases that's going to be the only and i mean in the household to their only option. we read. joined mark at the entrance to the center it didn't work out the way he wanted the

center refused him because his blood pressure was too high. to be able to donate. them. and it's very important because. i take my blood pressure medication and i think i think i. said if you can donate it it's a it's a financial issue it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do it. as valuable stuff. that i might have to run for along with a you know just for you know i mean i'll take care of it soon i'll be able to i'll be able to get my blood pressure straighten out and that's why it is good for me to travel. we accompanied him to a small subsidized apartment that he's been living in for a year. money

to make a cell phone home when i had my stroke it was about three years ago i went into the doctor's to be quite honest i was drinking a lot i was doing drugs i was combining a lot of bad stuff so the next day i went to the cleveland clinic which is one of our really good hospitals in cleveland. in the word with people that don't have a lot of money as you get raided it when you get raided it means you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady do it you say oh you're way below poverty level. you know there's below and it is way below so that was an eye opener. there are

times when. for my own self-esteem. and i want to accept help or want to be able to. say you know no thanks but no thanks to it out to pharma. it's kind of easy money. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary. that crock pot it right up. for mark and many other americans blood is last source of income. if you got sick he could no longer donate he'd have no windows. but all of these blood donations are affecting his health. david margolick this is a doctor in one of the city's largest public hospitals in metro health is the

safety net system for cleveland we take care of people we're garbus of their ability to pay for a lot of our patients and the people that we take care of at metro health this is their one of the few strategies that they can use to get money out of the literature of say about the long term effects of donating plus mile was the week i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do done a plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued they have headaches but beyond that you know all i know is the red cross has one time a month and these guys are doing it twice a week. to talk to this individual who is donating my patient and he may not be able to afford a cell phone bill or rents and that is more important for his health potentially than the down side effects of donating because if he doesn't have

a cell phone he can't get a job. or he can't pay his bills. you know freeze so. this is the this is the dilemma that we're in. now. but if you could earn extra money while doing something great for others to farm a plasma you can not only are plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet it diseases you could own the usa as the world's main exporter of human class with seventy percent of the world market their success is based on a foolproof recipe by building on this type of campaign they nurture the image of a country with excellent sanitary conditions. the market is under the supervision of the food and drug administration the f.d.a. stamp is a guarantee of quality opening the doors to the international market each week frozen plasma is dispatched in shipments mainly to europe.

this is the other side of the american dream masses of poor people willing to sell their blood they provide an unlimited pool of primary material we wanted to understand the conditions in which blood is collected seven am in cleveland in the parking lot of the pharma. doing no more dead heat we were abject at and i want to get no more i just smiled and i didn't need flour we need but. i don't want to do gangnam i get it raised you know it is look i'm providing. you know. i'm giving. these stories illustrate the industrial pace and inadequate checks however the pharma assures the authorities that there is strict donor monitoring but if that's the case why didn't the swiss company let

a sentence you have just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff this is how our it's donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera. basile of the dubrovnik in venice are all fixed travel destinations so it must be nice to live there or is it. to. go crowds of tourists disrupt the city's economic and social life in them and hopefully before the sun the celestial get out all such as the traditional story some nuts sometime soon as we don't find a school much. while the cities try desperately not to collapse. the profit of. the couple who will probably go on the dole coffee cup at

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