Contaminated Blood Scandal

Some 22 Conservative MPs back Labour amendment supporting contaminated blood victims.
One man reveals how a misdiagnosis he received as a boy means he is now "living a death sentence", as the contaminated blood inquiry reopens.
Security measures are much tougher than at a similar public inquiry where the majority of participants are white.
Paul David Le Bourn contracted hepatitis C through blood transfusions after having his leg amputated.
As the eyes of the world focus on the Infected Blood Inquiry this week, so many traumatised victims have been unable to live their lives without proper closure – they must be listened to
Opening statements were heard by the Infected Blood Inquiry on Tuesday.
Department of Health and Social Care says fund will increase from £46 million to £75 million.
The plug was pulled on support payments, leaving grieving widow Su Gorman penniless.
About Contaminated Blood Scandal
The contaminated blood scandal is a health disaster in which thousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C (hep C) viruses through treatment with contaminated blood or blood products. The deadly treatments were used by the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s and as many as 3,000 people have since lost their lives. Many of those infected were haemophiliacs. The disaster is now the subject of a public inquiry in the UK.