An investigation into the most atrocious incidents in British medical history revealed on Monday that British authorities and the nation’s public health service concealed the truth about the tragedy for decades while purposefully exposing thousands of patients to deadly infections through tainted blood and blood products.
As per the shocking data, around 3,000 people died in the UK, and many more were diagnosed with lifelong illnesses. Through the use of tainted blood supplies from the National Health Service (NHS), around 30,000 individuals suffered from hemophiliac tendency and were infected with HIV and hepatitis C between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
Deeply disturbed by witnessing the pain of thousands of patients affected in the decades-long scam, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed apologies on Monday when a withering investigation revealed that the scam was covered up and mostly averted. Sunak apologized sincerely to the House of Commons, referring to the long-awaited report’s conclusions as “A day of shame for the British state.”
He vowed that “whatever it costs” would be paid to victims. Furthermore, the government is likely to reveal a package, with a total estimated value of more than 10 billion pounds ($12 billion) for the victims of the tragic medical accident.
The severity of the incident, according to former judge Brian Langstaff, whose report has revealed about the medical scam, is horrific, and he claimed that false promises of good care and constant denials had made people’s suffering worse. Despite the fact that it was already clear by the early 1980s that blood could potentially transmit the AIDS virus, his research discovered that governments and medical experts had failed miserably to prevent the risk.
Adding to this, he mentioned that the report indicated that the blood products were supplied from overseas, notably the United States, where drug addicts and prisoners were used as donors, and shockingly, the donors were not adequately checked.There were also attempts to conceal the incident, as evidenced in reports that health department staff destroyed records in 1993. “I have to report that it could largely, though not entirely, have been avoided,” concluded Judge Brian Langstaff.
For the unversed, former prime minister Theresa May approved the investigations in 2017 into the scam following mass protests by activists who desired to expose shortcomings. Thus, during the investigation, the team reviewed testimony from over 5,000 witnesses and over 100,000 documents over the course of several years.
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