Patient advocates in Canada are calling for a reopened investigation into the death of Rodiyat Alabede, an international student from Nigeria studying at the University of Winnipeg, who suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after donating blood plasma in October 2025 at a facility run by Spanish healthcare company Grifols. An initial probe by Health Canada found no link between the donation and her death, but campaigners allege significant discrepancies between her autopsy — which revealed an enlarged heart, a condition that would have placed serious strain on her body during donation — and a medical summary later produced by the federal regulator. Inspection reports viewed by the Guardian documented serious failures at the Winnipeg site, including poorly trained staff who did not know how to respond to machine alarms, deficient record-keeping, and a failure by Grifols to address previously identified problems — raising broader concerns about systemic safety issues at plasma donation centres across Canada.