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It has been estimated that more than 30,000 patients received contaminated blood, resulting in the deaths of at least 3,000 people. [4] In July 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May announced an independent public inquiry into the scandal, for which she was widely praised as successive governments going back to the 1980s had refused such an inquiry. [6]
The Penrose Inquiry was the public inquiry into hepatitis C and HIV infections from NHS Scotland treatment with blood and blood products such as factor VIII, often used by people with haemophilia. The event is often called the Tainted Blood Scandal or Contaminated Blood Scandal. [1]
The infection of up to 30,000 people with HIV or hepatitis C from contaminated blood has been called the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. Thousands died after contaminated ...
More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. ... More than 3,500 victims of the scandal were NHS ...
More than 30,000 people who received NHS treatment between the 1970s and early 1990s were infected with contaminated blood. They contracted a number of viruses including hepatitis C and HIV.
A blood-borne disease is a disease that can be spread through contamination by blood and other body fluids. Blood can contain pathogens of various types, chief among which are microorganisms , like bacteria and parasites , and non-living infectious agents such as viruses .
The Infected Blood Inquiry is looking into how thousands of people were infected with contaminated blood during the 1970s and 1980s. ... NHS National Services Scotland director of primary care and ...
Andrew Michael March, a haemophiliac, [5] along with several thousand other patients was treated with contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] [6]The contaminated blood and blood products disaster also occurred in the Republic of Ireland [1] and various compensation schemes and statutory provisions were put in place between 1991 and 2002 on compassionate grounds, without legal ...