than a door right they need to stop public want to know. today carlos is donating blood despite his busy job he's a regular blood donor at the red cross center and lois on carlos sees his act as a sign of commitment to the community. and a subtle message that's 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. don't do much to new. sick or it might add to. them wonder. more similar to the additional.

that. that's going to. push towards come in can the board to put on the naked push on all to get. this woman flu mad. 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 not for. will this issue because when you don't before giving blood the swiss donors must complete a medical question here 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 sold to private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise. to help them but i hope that sponsor thousand looks bent on periodic. does since fold luge bend in the us highest in the blue tendencies. and they leapt in out of plaza. vesna neat plethora and given thoughts to the underemployed pushed and tile in the system plus muscle doesn't look at what plot sent is making it direct in the entropy taylor get off to the indian. tightest few cuts he entered in the uncool salute to los stop and own cities and he says well the woman said stealth news to us live here on tiled us into fast after you put

scent gate in this we're going on to talk till nearly induced to leave the sinfield men did out of the lead loot look there and then to come into. the plasma fractionation industry these are the pharmaceutical companies that buy eighty thousand liters of plasma from the red cross each year the humanitarian institution makes nearly ten million swiss francs from the sale or the donors aware of it. that doesn't need is some covering needed doing yesterday between a song papa has some. saying by no memo to her boss a shoulder the shows i. don't understand it just had a fit because we don't need most on a p.r. priscus to solve ai vernia. it's been a case wait he said don't his appeal to the summit but i want you know don't sample them when you don't use to measure happiness or. first discovery the majority of

the donor's blood is sold to pharmaceutical industries. the industry is so interested in carlos's blood for a specific reason it's liquid parts called plasma contains sought after proteins. they're used to make very expensive and profitable drugs. who are the players behind this industry. we decided to track the plasma trade. to see if outlast typically fifty seven percent of our blood is made of a plastic plastic is a strong other liquid poison the whole of life that transports water and nutrients to all sounds or not it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent protein plasma plasma industry is healing chant a handful of companies share the world market baxter in the usa c.s.l.

bearing in australia and your foals in spain and the company pharma in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films. 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 and to do this with a callback to freeze and to mix thousands of liters of human plasma these companies control a market which is worth seventeen billion dollars and a growing steadily history so that the plasma gong margaery the president and co-founder of dr pharma is a very discreet person forbes estimates his fortune at six billion dollars this is one of his very rare public appearances how do you see the future. elop in these

products are life saving drugs and they will be required for some patient groups as a lifelong therapy presumably they're covered by and most insurance yeah they have to be as they are very expensive but that is also the other part of the same from the same calling them many countries who simply cannot afford to provide this kind of level of treatment to the population yet at least it sounds easy when you say replies well should be a bit well enough to just go through your population your country the ploughs well and then you'll be in good shape when you make those products it's not the case. a truly global organization. remains a family business dedicated to the way it's going to patients to go. in life 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. oh. yeah. yeah thanks to her plasma based treatment to mars my of 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. well to escape was quick. to say. that today in fact in fact. if. you had our. tumor. on to skate let it rest but i'm ok state cut. through. the saying. we. have to get paid for. not there when my head from county clerk put it on this

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where is the blood in the drug from from swiss donors. i went me. next they. didn't 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 origins these expert analyzed plasma samples each week as well as the blood derived products that are used in hospitals. not just in profit and yet in the us can. only cocked and lost my cool. down to earth again so on. a department called test them just known stephen o.

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for. its. quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics register some of your plasma 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 usa allows compensation for blood donations this practice is legal. we enter the premises which are under heavy surveillance impossible to speak with the status it. just it just of

taking actions against your driveway you know with the fields from the ok for as the create an across the street is good to get to. 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. that.

would you know i guess you know it's legal so i don't help rob we've got it that's 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 to do it this. is not it's not for a desolate donation should be should be for ever do they do exploiting their exploring people who are in whatever conditions he is economically. and actually now to do a nation to actually pay him for what valid in charge of a giveaway after the screw up in charge in switzerland for the pleasant as told to make their money on it and both were you know cut a little bit big giving to abuse people is not very much.

in cleveland all the market leaders are represented to see us out refold. we also find octo pharma the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that to. the end of the full market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. but i'll buy. budget right now where for thirty two bucks for red forty five dollars for the full fifty dollars a sure so that's a lot of the same ballpark. 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 and. looking at you you and i were and public property

it is that everybody that is now my friends meeting 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 you know the new bills and 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 tuesday or thursday as any two days of the week you get twenty dollars and then it go up to forty dollars along if you've been donating now for a year as a starter let you know two times a week that's a lot yes this school. is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash good. 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 just that's one of the side effects is that it helps. the procedure is well established as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donors credit card is credited. here there are very few now. this is the plasma a blood bank or so much like a micro like a regular of visa card your arm sort of put the money on your card 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 car and still you're 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

schaefer 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 quadruples emergency food assistance goes through the roof so when all of these things are put in the same direction. 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 and to their only option. we rejoined 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. and it's very important. i take my blood pressure medication and i think i think. that then if you can build a it's it's a it's a find it shows the issue that it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do it. it's valuable stuff. i might have to ask friends if they 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 you know so the next day i went to the cleveland clinic which is one of our really good hospitals in cleveland and the word with people that thought of a lot of money is you get raided it when you get raided it may mean you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady doing it you say oh you're way below poverty level i'm like way below you know there's below and there's way below so that was an eye opener.

there are times when. for my own self-esteem i don't want to accept help or want to be able to. to say you know no thanks but no thanks to it out to pharma it's kind of easy money in. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary. for mark and many other americans blood is the last source of income. he could no longer donate he'd have no wind. 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 metro health is the safety

net system for cleveland we take care of people or guard us 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 blood to the weak i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do donate plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued they have headaches but beyond that. now 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 was 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 how free is so. this is the this is the dilemma that we're and. what if you could earn extra money while doing something great for others at aka pharma plasma you can not only are plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet it diseases you could own the usa is the world's main exporter of human plasma 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. i could do no more dead heat we were abject at and i want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we need but most kill me so. i don't want. did and i'm i get it dad i'm not crazy to do it this was a provider. you know a motor car. 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 is consistent do you how are its donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with a hidden camera. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to a guest in the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you than.

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