Revealing new dimensions of the contaminated blood case in England

– International news – Tasnim News Agency, Germany’s NTV wrote in an article: Thousands of people in England died as a result of contaminated blood stocks in the 1970s and 1980s. They lost themselves. An investigative report shows active efforts by governments to cover up this country’s biggest health scandal. Now thousands of relatives and survivors of the victims of this scandal are waiting for the statement of Rishi Sonak, the Prime Minister of England. According to the research conducted in the scandal related to contaminated blood stocks in the UK with more than 3000 deaths, it was largely Prevented. According to the final report of the one-year investigation, active measures have been taken by officials and members of the government to hide the truth. According to the investigation, government officials destroyed documents and knowingly exposed patients to unacceptable risks of infection.

The government is expected to award billions of pounds in compensation to victims. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised “comprehensive compensation” in parliament on Monday. The Conservative leader of the government said in the House of Commons: “I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart and unconditionally for this terrible injustice.” 1980, up to 30,000 people received contaminated blood products. Accordingly, doctors transfused patients with blood donated from prisoners and drug addicts in the United States and Britain without informing patients of the known dangers of high-risk donors.

In many places, canned food It was also subjected to heat treatment to purify blood infected with HIV. This method had already been discredited since the early 1980s due to its ineffectiveness. According to this report, doctors and health authorities were already aware of the risks of blood disease for patients as a result of this blood transfusion. As a result, more than 3,000 people died after being infected with HIV or hepatitis C through blood transfusions or treatment. Brian Longstaff, chairman of the commission of inquiry, told reporters that the tragedy was an accident. was not People trusted doctors and the government to keep them safe, and that trust was betrayed.

The more than 2,500-page “Tainted Blood Research” report decries a “catalogue of failures.” Longstaff said that the consequences were disastrous not only for the affected people, but also for their relatives. The tragedy continues as patients suffering from “life-destroying” infections continue to die every week.

Longstaff also said that claims by various governments that patients at the time were the best have received medical treatment and blood tests have been provided at the earliest opportunity, it is not true. The truth was hidden for decades and there is evidence that the Ministry of Health documents were marked for destruction.

The latest revelations about the tainted blood scandal in England show that the country’s Blood Service purchased and donated blood and platelets, specialized diagnostic and treatment services and clinical research) has collected purchased blood from British prisons despite many warnings about the high risk of infection and disease.

This evidence shows They show how insecure the British blood supply was until the early 1990s; That’s when testing for life-threatening viruses such as hepatitis C and AIDS became available.

The documents show how calls to end buying blood from prisoners were ignored. got Research showed that in 1973, the rate of hepatitis in prisoners was five times higher than in the general population.

In the said scandal, it was found that blood products were imported from the United States because of the lower cost, despite the knowledge of their dangers. would be The aforementioned blood products were prepared from blood purchased from people at risk such as prisoners.

Thousands of victims of this scandal are now seeking accountability from the authorities; So far, the exact statistics of the victims have not been provided; They also want to know why the British government delayed the process of identifying the victims and caused many people to remain unaware of their AIDS and hepatitis C infection.

The contaminated blood is one of the worst scandals of the British government. which was recently disclosed; The available documents about the scandal show that the UK substituted cheaper US lethal blood products for what it called cost savings.

Investigation into the tainted blood scandal ordered by Theresa May in 2017. And after filing a collective complaint by hundreds of victims, this case started; The said research was finally resumed after a round of suspension; In the temporary report published in April last year (April 1402) of this investigation, it is stated: It is clear that mistakes were made at the individual, collective and systemic levels; Jeremy Hunt, the former health minister, also said during the investigation that this disaster was the failure of the British government.

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