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The report found that 8,120 people were chronically infected with Hepatitis C, ten years or more after contaminated blood transfusions. Circumstances under which people were infected via transfusions are different to factor products. For example, blood for blood transfusion was not imported from the US.
The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, more commonly referred to as the Krever Commission or Krever Inquiry, was a royal commission of inquiry into the tainted blood scandal, investigating how the Canadian Red Cross and the provincial and federal governments allowed contaminated blood into the healthcare system.
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]
British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth ...
Both Irene Moore, who died in 1998, and Peter Lloyd, who died in 2008, left behind families who continue to struggle with their respective losses.
More than 30,000 people were infected with deadly viruses while they were receiving NHS care between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
In the Westminster system, a bill of attainder was a bill passed by Parliament to attaint persons who were accused of high treason, or, in rare cases, a lesser crime.A person attainted need not have been convicted of treason in a court of law; one use of the attainder process was a method of declaring a person a fugitive.
The contaminated blood scandal has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.