Current location:world >>
Victims of UK's infected blood scandal to receive final compensation payments
world5443People have gathered around
IntroductionLONDON (AP) — Victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people wer ...
LONDON (AP) — Victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected by contaminated blood or blood products provided by the public health service, will start receiving their final compensation payments this year, the government said Tuesday.
Officials announced the compensation plans a day after the publication of a report that found civil servants and doctors exposed patients to unacceptable risks by giving them blood transfusions or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
The scandal is seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday apologized for the “decades-long moral failure at the heart of our national life.”
The report said successive U.K. governments refused to admit wrongdoing and tried to cover up the scandal, in which an estimated 3,000 people died after receiving the contaminated blood or blood products. In total, the report said about 30,000 people were infected with HIV or hepatitis C, a kind of liver infection, over the period.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Cultural Caravan news portal”。http://guadeloupe.unhasdecoradas.org/article-08d799250.html
Related articles
Russia begins nuclear drills in an apparent warning to West over Ukraine
worldRussia’s military on Tuesday began drills involving tactical nuclear weapons that were announced by ...
【world】
Read moreNew Fort Wayne, Indiana, mayor is sworn in a month after her predecessor's death
worldFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Democrat Sharon Tucker was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Indiana’s se ...
【world】
Read moreBritain's Kensington Palace releases image of Prince Louis to mark his 6th birthday
worldLONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace has released a photograph of Prince Louis to celebrate his 6th birth ...
【world】
Read more
Popular articles
- Hush money trial: Trump witness Costello back on the stand after admonishment
- Orioles call up another top prospect in OF Heston Kjerstad, who hit 10 HRs in 21 games at Triple
- GoFundMe expands into Mexico as part of for
- These apps allow workers to get paid between paychecks. Experts say there are steep costs
- Slovak Parliament votes to condemn political violence after assassination attempt on prime minister
- Remains believed to be missing woman, daughter found at West Virginia home on same day suspect died
Latest articles
Haiti’s international airport reopens after gang violence
Stoinis powers Lucknow to 6
Phish fans are famously dedicated. What happens when they enter the Sphere?
Girl, nine, is taken to hospital with life
Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream as Trump allies fill Congress, report shows
Electrician, 55, filmed racially abusing Muslim women as they returned from a pro
LINKS
- China initiates program to boost employment among college graduates
- Katie Holmes sports a chic designer look while enjoying a stroll around New York City
- Mike Tyson sends warning shot to Jake Paul ahead of their July 20 fight, as 57
- China launches construction of biomedical platform for disease research
- China prepares to launch Tianzhou
- Confucius Institute in Nepal lauded during 1st inaugural anniversary
- Kentucky AD Barnhart: No comment on suit by former swimmers alleging sexual misconduct by ex
- Michael Busch homers in his 4th straight game to power the Cubs past the Mariners 3
- In new movie, the South started the Korean War, as Pyongyang has always claimed — Radio Free Asia
- Monster Georgia father is sentenced to 50 years in prison for poisoning his 18