After it became known – through a recently revealed report – that the public Health system and the British Government “covered up” a UK contaminated blood transfusion scandal For decades, the Government revealed that those affected will receive an advance of 210,000 pounds (more than one billion pesos) as compensation.
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According to the document in question, transfusions with contaminated blood They allegedly infected more than 30,000 people in this country with HIV and hepatitis C between 1970 and 1991.and some 2,900 adults and children died as a result of what they consider “one of the largest health disasters in the history of the country.”
The United Kingdom would have infected people with contaminated blood.
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An independent investigation – carried out for five years in the United Kingdom by former judge Brian Langstaff – determined, according to findings released on Monday, May 20, that the infections and deaths of patients were not an “accident” but could have “been avoided.”
The compensation promised by the Government
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Also, assured that the first payments will be delivered within 90 daysso that “they can reach those who need them most urgently.”
Final compensation will be made before next year and will be exempt from some taxes.
Transfusions with contaminated blood allegedly infected more than 30,000 people in this country with HIV and hepatitis C.
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The “health disaster”
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They also claim that health authorities were “too slow” in responding to risks and a “licensing failure” was identified in imports (from US donors) that were “understood to be less safe than national treatments”.
It should be noted that in the 1970s a new hemophilia treatment was introduced that required a large amount of blood reserves, forcing the United Kingdom to import it from the United States, where the donors – many of them from risk groups such as drug addicts, sex workers and prisoners – They received payment for donating blood.
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