Infected blood scandal was ‘a criminal cover-up on an industrial scale’

The final report into the infected blood scandal has been released, calling it the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, and patients were knowingly exposed to “unacceptable risks.”

The Inquiry Chair Sir Brian Langstaff pointed to the sheer scale of the tragedy, calling it “horrifying”. Well, it’s everything that the families wanted, it’s taken far, far too long. So there are questions for everybody here, for all political parties, for parliament, how did this take so long? How did an injustice on this scale go under a cover-up for decades and nothing was done.Exactly as you say, successive governments of both political persuasions have had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this moment when justice could have been delivered to the families much, much earlier.

Shameful. Whitehall rocked to its foundations. How can government line up behind a lie for four decades? How can that be allowed? To happen in a country like ours. How can parliament ignore an injustice on this scale for all of those years. A criminal cover-up on an industrial scale. That is what infected blood is, and that is why there now needs to be full redress on every level.And prosecutions also should follow.“This is a day of shame for the British state.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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