Jehovah’s Witnesses will be permitted to accept treatments taken from another person’s blood in a step hailed as ‘massively significant’ for patient safety.
Leaders of the Christian denomination will still not grant their blessing for followers to have ‘whole blood’ transfusions as they deem this to be prohibited by the Bible.
But they have issued a historic ruling about other blood-derived treatments, including red and white cells, plasma and platelets.
Previously, Jehovah’s Witnesses were told they could not accept any kind of treatment derived from another person’s blood, citing Acts 15:20, a biblical passage that tells people to ‘abstain from things polluted by
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