Health care workers should normally be accepted. It is however important to ensure that they have not suffered any relevant events that might put them at risk of infection.
It is also important to ensure that they have not been put at significant risk of infectious diseases through patient or sample contact that may prevent them from donating. Such contact would be exceptional and they should be aware of any potential threat to their own health.
Contact with MRSA and other common hospital acquired infections should not normally prevent donation. |