The government has said the first victims of the infected blood scandal will receive final compensation payments this week. Ten people have been offered a settlement worth over £13m in total, with thousands more applications due to be processed from January. More than 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis from contaminated blood products in the … Read more
The government is due to announce what it says will be a “comprehensive” compensation scheme. Source link
Mr Sunak described the release of the report as a “day of shame for the British state” and vowed to pay “comprehensive compensation” to those affected and infected by the scandal. “Whatever it costs to deliver this scheme, we will pay it,” he told the House of Commons on Monday. He said Cabinet Office minister … Read more
Victims of the scandal said they had been “gaslit for generations” and felt “vindicated” by the report. Source link
Two main groups of people were caught up in the scandal. One was people with haemophilia, and those with similar disorders, who have a rare genetic condition which means their blood does not clot properly. In the 1970s, a new treatment was developed to replace the missing clotting agents, made from donated human blood plasma. … Read more
ReutersCopyright: Reuters Then-Prime Minister Theresa May ordered the inquiry in the summer of 2017Image caption: Then-Prime Minister Theresa May ordered the inquiry in the summer of 2017 It has taken decades to get to this point – and that has been a big frustration for campaigners. In other countries – from France to Japan – … Read more
The Tainted Blood campaign group chairman, Andy Evans, who was infected with HIV and hepatitis C as a child through his haemophilia treatment, said publication of the report would be a “defining” moment after decades of campaigning. “This is where we pin our hopes, really – we don’t have anywhere else to go after this,” … Read more
Martin White died at the age of 33 after being given blood products contaminated with HIV. Source link
There has been a surge in demand for hepatitis C tests since the BBC revealed that hundreds of people in the UK were unknowingly infected with the virus, the Hepatitis C Trust says. Up to 27,000 people caught it when they were given transfusions with infected blood from the 1970s until 1991. According to BBC … Read more
In May 1983, Dr Spence Galbraith, the director of the UK’s Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, wrote to Dr Ian Field, the senior principal medical officer at the Department of Health, urging that all US blood products should be withdrawn from use until the risk of Aids was “clarified”. Source link