Thousands of hospital patients were infected with HIV or Hepatitis C through tainted blood products in the 1970s and ‘80s
A long-awaited inquiry opened Tuesday in Britain into how contaminated blood was used to treat thousands of people in the 1970s and ‘80s, killing at least 2,400.
Previous investigations have been branded a whitewash by victims’ campaigners. In 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May ordered a new inquiry, with the power to summon witnesses. The inquiry, led by a retired judge, will spend months hearing from victims in London and around the country.As hearings began Tuesday, May said the blood scandal “was a tragedy that should never have happened.”
Victims accuse the government of failing to take responsibility for a scandal that has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of Britain’s public health care system.
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