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Britain slammed in inquiry for infecting thousands with tainted blood and covering up the scandal

LONDON — British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. “The response of those in authority served to compound people’s suffering.” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak …

LONDON — The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry was published on Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. Infected blood campaigners gather in Parliament Square, ahead of the publication of the final …

Umesh on Thursday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the jaundice outbreak in Vengoor panchayat. He authorised Shyju P. Jacob, Revenue Divisional Officer and Sub Divisional Magistrate, Muvattupuzha, to hold an inquiry under Section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and submit a report within two weeks. The order said that jaundice outbreak was reported in wards 8, 9, 10, …

Infected blood scandal affected TWICE the number of children previously feared, inquiry is told

More than double the number of children than previously thought were infected with HIV through blood products in the UK, an inquiry has said. Thousands of patients were hit by HIV and hepatitis C because of contaminated blood in the 1970s and 1980s Jenni Richards KC, counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry, said the inquiry’s view is that the figure …

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