A bloody disgrace: How the infected blood victims were betrayed by a cover-up
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After decades of buck-passing and over 3000 deaths the infected blood inquiry published its final report finding that patients were betrayed by 'cover-up'. The chairman of the inquiry said the ‘scale of what happened is horrifying’ and the prime minister has apologised. So, as ministers prepare to pay out billions of pounds in compensation, will this be enough for the families of those affected? Has justice finally been achieved? We ask Sunday Times’s Caroline Wheeler, who helped bring the inquiry about.
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| 1:07.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. It's been called the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. |
| 1:19.0 | This is a disaster that has taken lives and ruined lives. |
| 1:24.0 | It's taken decades, thousands of deaths and a relentless battle to have their harrowing stories heard. |
| 1:32.0 | In the 1970s and 80s, tens of thousands of NHS patients |
| 1:39.9 | were given blood infected with HIV and hepatitis C. |
| 1:45.0 | A public inquiry was launched in 2018 and yesterday |
| 1:49.4 | it finally published its report. What I've found is that disaster was no accident. |
| 1:57.0 | People put their trust in doctors and the government to keep them safe and that trust was betrayed. |
| 2:05.0 | There's not only a cover-up, it's actually an abuse by many people who were set to supposedly care for us. |
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