More than 30,000 infected with HIV and hepatitis C in blood products scandal: UK inquiry
A report is due on the tragedy that unfolded in the '70s and '80s from using contaminated plasma from prisoners.
It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the 75-year history of the UK’s NHS.
More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s after being given contaminated blood products harvested from US prisoners.
An estimated 2900 patients died as a result.
The scandal centres on the fact that government officials had been warned at the time that the blood plasma had been harvested from inmates held in US prisons.Â
