Infected blood inquiry scandal - live: Sunak ....

[IceWizard]

Infected blood inquiry scandal - live:
Sunak calls report ‘day of shame’ and vows
to give victims compensation

Prime minister also apologises to victims as inquiry
finds catalogue of failures by successive governments and NHS after
tens of thousands avoidably infected with HIV and Hepatitis




Sunak apologises ‘wholeheartedly’ to infected blood victims




The prime minister has called the findings of the inquiry into the infected blood scandal
a “day of national shame”, as he pledged to give victims compensation and apologised
to them on behalf of successive governments.

Addressing the House of Commons on Monday following the publication of the damning
2,527-page report, Rishi Sunak said: “I want to make a whole-hearted and unequivocal
apology for this terrible injustice.”

He also promised to pay “comprehensive compensation” to those affected and infected
by the scandal. “Whatever it costs to deliver this scheme, we will pay it,” he added,
saying details would be set out on Tuesday.

Politicians, doctors and civil servants were found guilty of a chilling cover-up in the report,
which laid bare a catalogue of failures by successive governments and the NHS that
amounted to a “calamity”.

Tens of thousands of people were avoidably infected with HIV and Hepatitis in the worst
treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, which led to the deaths of around 3,000 patients.

The report into the shameful scandal found the public was falsely reassured, children were
treated unnecessarily, evidence was deliberately destroyed, and a significant number of
people remain undiagnosed after receiving blood transfusions in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Some patients were “betrayed” because tests were carried out on them without their
knowledge or consent.

John Glen, the Cabinet Office minister dealing with the scandal on behalf of the government,
has refused to rule out criminal proceedings for those involved.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/healt...47985.html

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https://au.news.yahoo.com/infected-blood...47306.html

[Charon]

Lord have mercy.

[Charon]

Hiv and hepatitis.

Unreal.

Lord God, help your people to survive until you take us home. in a timely fashion. Those diseases are God forsaken horrors.

[barq2]

The shame is they didn't apologise earlier. This government have been in power for 14 years, so they might have acted sooner. People are still waiting for compensation.

I believe that by calling an election this summer, which will almost certainly be won by the Labour Party, they'll hand the expense of compensation over to someone else.

BTW The first person I knew who died of AIDS had hemophilia. (RIP Simon)

[Charon]

i was very close to my hairdresser in Manhattan. He was one of the first to get HIV. He lost all his clients. Lucille Balls witch of a daughter would not go to him anymore.

I still went. I prayed with him. I was gonna give up law to work with Aids victims.

As Christians do, or I used to, we ask 3 pastors to pray about it for us also.

I was told God wanted me to remain in Law.

I pray he made heaven as he was a good man. And i am still shocked how people did no research or screw research, they did not show human kindness. I seriously doubted i would get aids from having my hair colored and cut.

May he rest in peace.

[Charon]

And i am sorry for your loss Barq. Our friends were still human beings with hearts.