Infected Blood: The PM apologies for a 50 year cover-up
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from 1970 to 1991 after being given contaminated blood products and transfusions - about 3,000 of whom have since died.
Sir Brian Langstaff, who chaired the inquiry, said the scale of what happened was "horrifying".
On the Sky News Daily, Matt Barbet talks to Sky's health correspondent Ashish Joshi about the report and Rosamund Cooper who was given blood products contaminated with Hepatitis C.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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