Awful news from today’s Independent:
More than 800 people with haemophilia have received contaminated blood products putting them at heightened risk of developing vCJD, the Government has disclosed for the first time.
The figures were revealed in a parliamentary answer from Lord Darzi, a Health minister, following the death of a haemophiliac who had received infected blood products…
Lord Morris, who established the privately funded two-year inquiry into the haemophilia “tainted blood” scandal after the Government declined to hold one, said yesterday: “There were only 6,000 haemophiliacs and almost 2,000 died of infection with hepatitis C and HIV. Now another 800 are at risk who have had blood from donors who went on to develop vCJD. As a group they could hardly have been dealt a worse hand – they are the most stricken community in Britain. It is scandalous that the vCJD Incidents Panel has left it seven months [since the death last November] to investigate the implications.”
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I think your post could make it clearer that this all happened before 1985, when routine blood screening was introduced. The tense of the Independent report makes it look as if this is an ongoing problem, which is misleading.
If you want to be outraged about something other than MPs expenses, then be outraged about the whole parliamentary and electoral system.
This isn’t finished yet. Why are Lib Dems not benefiting more?
Paul: you’re right about the screening problem being in the past. But the impact of the failures is still very much with many families, as is the demand for explanations and justice. For example, whilst there has now been a thorough inquiry, it wasn’t an official one. Instead, it was a privately organised and funded one. There’s still stuff the government could (and in my view should) do. In that sense it is still an open issue.
Mp’s are now being made fun of on business sites
http://www.enabling-comms.co.uk/phone-offers/mp-expenses.html
how and when does it stop