Self Sufficiency In Plasma And Plasma Derived Medicines

The discussion of this topic hinges necessarily on the question “What is self-sufficiency?” It is our experience that the use of this term many times is used to satisfy political rather than clinical needs.According to the Economics Dictionary Self-sufficiency means: “the ability of a household or a country to exist on products produced by itself without the need to purchase supplies from elsewhere”[1] The question one might ask is whether it is advisable to create a state of national self-sufficiency for plasma protein therapies.