Lives ‘still blighted’ by contaminated blood
- A charity reports that thousands of lives are affected by the infected blood scandal, with victims and families sharing the ongoing hardships.
- Thousands received tainted blood or products from the 1970s to 1990s, marking a severe healthcare disaster within the NHS history.
- Around 6,000 individuals with bleeding disorders were infected with hepatitis, with 1,250 having both hepatitis and HIV, and only about 250 surviving today from the dual infection.
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Infected blood scandal is 'still happening' as people die every week from contaminated blood, says inquiry chief
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Infected Blood Scandal: Victims' families' lives still impacted by scandal
A charity supporting those impacted by the Infected Blood scandal has said that many families lives are still 'blighted' by the scandal as the final…
'Like Hillsborough, infected blood scandal victims never should have been forced to fight for justice'
A long-awaited report will begin to start correcting the awful and unforgivable wrong faced by those whose blood was contaminated in the 1970s and 1980s, but justice won't be done until prosecutions are made
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