An inquiry into the 'worst treatment disaster in NHS history' prepares to hear from its final witness.
One of the key questions the inquiry will now have to answer is whether more could and should have been done to prevent those infections and deaths.Former Prime Minister Sir John Major drew more gasps from families watching his testimony when heMay 1983 by Dr Spence Galbraith,It warned that haemophiliacs were being infected with Aids and concluded that "all products made from blood donated in the USA... should be withdrawn".
Another ex-health secretary Andy Burnham, now the Labour mayor of Manchester, said successive governments had "comprehensively failed" the victims over five decades and suggested there may be a case for charges of corporate manslaughter in the future.5. Compensation agreed Many of those infected had had to give up jobs and live on benefits because of a series of health problems.
He said there was a "compelling case" to quickly make some interim compensation payments of £100,000 each.
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