They need to persuade more healthy people to donate rather than pander to a high risk group.
They need to let families/friends donate directly to each other.
I know … eliminates the need for many of their blood centers.
The tattoo issue is really shocking. It’s basically on the honor system for telling them when they got the tattoos and whether the tattoo business was certified with sterile new equipment for each customer. With the massive craze of increased tattoos in the last decade, nearly everyone has at least one or two new tattoos. It’s become a land mine for the blood donation industry.
But I was told that I’d be deferred for five years after successful prostate cancer surgery. Completely cured, but they still have to have a fresh PSA test from a doctors certification every time I donate.