Contaminated Blood

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Yesterday was wonderful and vindicating yet absolutely exhausting as one of the “victims”.

Rishi’s apology means absolutely nothing. It doesn’t make up for what anyone went through, the stigma while dealing with a health crisis, the grief, the suffering, the years of medical appointments and treatment we have had to go through.

The reason you can’t give blood after a blood transfusion is because they fucking knew what they had done to us.

Fuck your apology Rishi.

I’m so sorry that you have been through this, the trauma is unimaginable.

As a blood donor, your second line really hits home how complicit they were.

Really hope that the compensation will be paid quickly although having seen what happened to the subpostmasters and Windrush generation I’m not optimistic sadly.

To be fair it wasn't Rishi who covered it up! It was in fact Theresa May who was in office in 2017 when they finally decided to open the enquiry. It has been many years of covering up the failings of the NHS so pointing the finger at one person is going to solve frick all. I also think the compensation is insulting, people's lives have been destroyed and many have died as a result of countless failings!!

No., donating blood after transfusion was stopped because of the possibility of Mad-cow disease' transmission

Press Association
Tue 16 Mar 2004 13.54 GMT
People who have received blood transfusions since January 1980 are to be banned from donating blood, the health secretary, John Reid, announced today.
Mr Reid said the move was being taken to avoid the "slight risk" of the transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). It comes after the government announced in December that a patient died of the disease - the human version of BSE - after receiving blood years earlier from a donor who contracted vCJD.

Mr Reid insisted this was still a "possibility, not a proven causal connection". But the government was determined to adopt a "precautionary approach" by banning blood donations by those who had received transfusions since January 1 1980.

@VestibuleVirgin i don’t believe that, they knew. CJD was a reason but not the main reason. The inquiry has shown that they knew.

I’m so sorry Op, I am ashamed to say I didn’t know much about this until yesterday but I am absolutely disgusted by what has been revealed and so so sorry for the victims of this horrendous scandal. I know compensation won’t change any of the hurt caused but I hope you get an appropriate amount asap and it allows you to live more comfortably. All the best.

They haven't announced the compensation yet so I don't think it is possible to say it's insulting. No figures were announced yesterday at the request of the haemophilia society who asked for a day just to absorb what had happened.

To be honest as an affected person, I am glad that the leaders of every political party stood up in the House of Commons and recognised how poorly successive governments have let down the victims and that there need to be changes in the way both the state and the NHS behave

Naive to think it’s was because of CJD. Sorry but I believe no one in a position of power. It’s because they know there are infected people who don’t know they are infected and if they tried to give blood they would have to tell them.

Years and Years we have spent fighting fox justice and it’s largely been kept out of the news.

why? Because it’s such a fuck up and incomprehensible.

No it wasn’t Rishi but he represents the establishment.

Given that the inquiry determined there had been a cover-up by government, it's extremely naive of you to take that health secretary's statement at face value.

I’ll never believe anything the state tell me again tbh.