Infected blood scandal: Victims set to receive billions of government compensation
Vložit
- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- They've waited for decades - many losing their lives, loved ones or livelihoods along the way.
Tomorrow, thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will get the final report of the inquiry into what happened to them. The government is also expected to approve more than ten billion pounds of compensation this week.
Our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald is outside Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, where the inquiry will conclude.
Worse than the post office scandal, and decades later, still no compensation.
I sick of paying for incompetence and the covering up of massive crimes
Yes and Crimes in this instance seem to be accurate if I understood correctly what I heard on bbc 4 radio today. The evidence regarding school with handicapped children being experimented upon is beyond words. I dont know full facts but if even half of what I understood is true from report then heads must roll and people should be put in prison. More to the point this must never happen again in any country.
100x worse than the post office scandal and hardly any airtime, this country has an infection...
Justice must be served along with compensation for those affected .Truly despicable. Why can't our Government do the right thing in a timely manner.
Incentives, doing things poorly and slowly is rewarded in politics as you just claim it would have been done quicker and better if you were allowed into more people's pockets.
Greed.
All the taxes go to pay for the Royal family’s healthcare and blue blood banks
I thought the NHS would at least test the blood to see if it’s clean. Unbelievable.😮
State funded health care is used to make money from human sacrifice
We went through something similar in the United States. It is horrible. It's the cover up that gets them in trouble everytime. In the U.S. the blood business is an extremely profitable one. $$$
Just heard tap water is undrinkable… u.k is ****
Other countries were doing it for years !
You are way too naive to believe it was a ‘mistake’, the truth is, it was a deliberate ploy to kick off a new (at the time) pharmaceutical industry.
This is beyond horrific - unspeakable
I don’t think only apology is enough, they should go to the human rights court
Completely heartbroken for you over these avoidable mistakes! Hoping you get the justice you deserve.
It's horrific that this has been delayed so long, how many people impacted by this have died since? A monstrous delay of justice that we should be ashamed of.
I didn't do it, no shame here. Those who canonise public services might want to consider their unquestioning loyalty though.
It's the same with any public enquiry and compensation. A deliberate attempt, not only to cover up in the first instance but to delay compensation, knowing people will die and they don't have to pay out. Corruption in plain sight but they know they can get away with it.
@@InnerCityGirl1 The regional monopolies granted by the government? Try harder.
It's insane to me that this has still not been dealt with in the UK. We started compensating everyone annually by 1989 in Canada, by 1996 we had our official commission by 1998 compensation was announced and the blood donation system completely reformed. We charged people and the last payouts were in 2002 for people who were not included in the original group of victims who were infected in the 1970s. I cannot believe this is not dealt with. You give these people an early death sentence, many already dead, and then you fail to apologize and charge anyone and do your best to help them move on with their lives. This is disgusting. The world is so distorted and crazy.
“Government compensation”???…NO, get it right, it’s TAXPAYER COMPENSATION!
We live in the age of universal euphemisms. Honesty and plain-speaking are considered very rude and bad for business nowadays.
Yep we will be paying for the government's incompetence
Tax payers need a refund
@@arcadealchemist vote Tory
@@illegalsmirf I vote based on policy out of principle lad, only time I ever voted for a Tory was sue hall but that's mainly because I liked her policys for mayor. I have to know the taxes are going to be reduced by 20% to allow independent business growth but they make our as if more taxation funds more things but it makes GDP shrink and gives control to other countries though cheep imports.
You can't just bake a cake and cut it in to thiner slices to charge more for each slice when they have a Monopoly over energy trade health care food water etc they can just shoot you and you have no say anymore
public money,the government doesn’t have any!
You are so right , they gave it alway !
We are the public and they have our money problem is they have a mega overdraft 😂 which we are paying for then they have the cheek to tell everyone to have at least £6000 savings ……lets face it most people who live in south east go from one pay cheque to the other juggling credit cards and overdraft because pay doesn’t reflect outgoings ………. I haven’t been on holiday for decades. I don’t live a lavish lifestyle and work full-time for local government what’s happening with our society. We need to get this sorted. A proper wage for a days work and basic infrastructure and medical care should be the least we should expect from all our taxes. We cant afford wars or expensive weapons we have lives to save and homes to build……so many important projects need to be started and they just spend our cash like its water …….or cynically distract us with talk of refugees fleeing in rubber boats. Let’s face it you would have to be pretty desperate to risk your family in a rubber boat. Let’s stop fighting wars in other peoples countries and start by making our country a place we all proud to call home.
I was offered blood in 1996 because I needed a blood transfusion. Fortunately the doctor told me that they didn't check for hepatitis c etc. of course I refused it. They are still not being honest the cut off date is wrong.
What a horrific way for John's mom to find out her children were infected, alone and staring at a list of kids on a refrigerator. Such cruelty.
Who were the Prime Ministers, Health Ministers and senior medical personnel collectively responsible for this disaster at the time and will anyone historically be held to account ?.
Clinton was governor of Arkansas at the time and they were selling the uk blood from prisoners, they KNEW what they were selling.
Ken Clarke?
Thatcher, it's literally anyone who has been in office since the 70s. This is a collective 45 year failure.
What all these scandals highlight for me is the utter contempt - the Govt , MPs , the Judiciary , the Civil Service , the Police The Post Office The Water Companies NHS bosses- have for ordinary people. Am i making myself clear -
This is an utter disgrace. Totally shaming for successive governments.
50 years. There was no excuse for this. Justice delayed is justice denied, and these victims needed compensation to help them cope with their disabilities a very long time ago
Jail time
Long
Overdue.
May there finally be recognition and understanding for these people. So much damage done while it was known.... my god , humans can be so horrific to each other.
anybody notice that the biggest tragedy in everyones lives is always the government
Govt is not here to fix anything, they are here to create obfuscations offer up expensive solution like covax, post office system, privatization of national assets etc.
I worked in politics. It attracts the slimiest most self-serving people and way too many politics and law degrees and not enough scientists, engineers or doctors to make good policy. The good honest folks get driven out of the system. All you get is a pack of greedy liars.
it’s OK, they’ve said an insincere “ sorreh”, after lying & hiding the documentation of their incompetence. now comes the insultingly low compensation payment of probably £2.50.
It needs to be a serious crime to try to quiet, subdue, threaten, suppress, intimidate, or stop a Whistleblower in any way whatsoever. Why? Because an organization, especially large ones, cannot improve or get better or become more efficient when such a suppressive environment exists. Knowledge requires truth, and knowledge is necessary in order to become aware that a problem exists which needs to be changed or fixed in someway. Suppression leads to a severe, deteriorating lack of quality.
Those who've died are heroes whether they wanted to be or not, and need a large prominent memorial with their names and the promise, "Never, ever again."
That would mean the Covid (experimental) vaccine will be the next scandal. Hopefully it won’t take 40yrs.
Plenty of money for Ukraine, immigrant hotel beds, junk PPE , parlimentary expenses (inc paying off blackmailers) and a bloated number of Lords at Westminster. Btw is donor blood from people who received the withdrawn AstraZeneca vax safe? Anyone checked on that?
Plenty of money for the blue blood bank, none for the public
My mum died in 2001 due to cancer..
She was given infected blood and was dead within a week...
The cause of death on her record is ' successful radio therapy treatment....
Because you don't go to a hospital to live. The NHS has always been about domestic population control though forced debt extraction a form of slavery pruning
😢😢
Infected with what!?
💔💔💔
Well you better fight to get that changed now.
As our government says "nothing to see here , move on".
1997 our family member died, Nineteen Hundred And Ninety Seven. They knew the blood was bad when it was given to the people who suffered from Hemophilia! 27 years ago and still not sorted out.
No such thing as government money, though that is not to say they aren't deserving of compensation for the medical abuse they suffered.
I think they should put a memorial for the whole people that died, very very sad
SO IT TOOK DECADES TO GET THE TRUTH
My daughter has given blood for a long time but recently stopped. She said they arent any questions asking which jabs people have had because many are suffering with blood clots!! I wouldnt trust anything these days n look how long situations have been left!! Terrible for these families!!😢😢
They test it now, the tranfusions they're speaking of in the 70s are not the same as a blood tranfusion that happens in 2024. You also cannot really decide whether you take the blood or not if you're in a situation where you require the blood to survive. You either decide to take it or you potentially die.
It's concerning blood clots from the Convid jab
The Covid (experimental) vaccine will be the next big scandal to be revealed.
wait for the Covid Jabs scandal
Probably won't happen. They were too well-prepared in advance this time.
Really
Are you sooooo naive
This is the problem with the British
Brainwashed
We are going to waiting a while for that one. 😅
it'll be a few more decades before the truth will come out, by then no one would even remember!
This was no accident. What a shame.
I had a blood transfusion in 1972 ,this is the first ive heard of this ,can someone please direct me
You're likely to be fine if you've had no ill effects to date. Hepatitis and HIV would have shown up long ago. I suppose you could request some tests and see where that goes, I would guess nowhere but not much else I can think of.
You can request a blood test kit for hepatitis C from the NHS. Go to their website to request it. It’ll test whether you have or have ever had hepatitis C, which was what the infected blood had. It causes liver disease amongst other things.
You should be fine if you haven’t seen any symptoms for 50 years, thank goodness. As the other commentators recommend, if you go to your local doctor and request a blood test for Hepatitis C and HIV they can give you one
Ryan White, a hemophiliac who used Factorate, died from AIDS in April 1990. He'd been diagnosed in 1984. He was 18.
They’re not even talking to the Tory Health Minister… astounding
Wow so sad to hear this Mother story ! 😢
I remember clear as day .. horrific
What good is money when you're dead? Would money heal the emotional scars caused by this life changing blunder?
WHAT GOVERNMENT WAS IN CHARGE AT THE TIME ?
Successive governments beginning from the start of the 1970s and ending in the early 1990s. In terms of the deliberate suppression of outrage, it was exacerbated largely by the Thatcher government, particularly one Kenneth Clarke.
Jab damage is coming next
risks o: vaccine were and are known by those taking it
Give it 5 more years or more... Way too early for them to start admitting their malevolence...
Yep 💯
@@kingkoi6542 well moderna has already been banned in the whole world, and they admitted it. People who can prove they have problems complications from it are entitled to compensation of 120k£.. but sadly they wont get they’re health back
CZcams deleting comments. Moderna is banned already
So isn't the uk demanding compensation from America for giving them a highly dangerous contaminated products???
Post office now this, whatever next . Its as if you cant trust this government
Factor BS.
This is shocking!
Who covered this up and are they still alive to face the consequences?
Super safe! No worries!
What about My Sister, she passed.
Hep. C.
Pure. Evil.
Sorry. 😢.
SHAME SHAME on those involved .....WHERE ARE THOSE RESPONSIBLE... WHO WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE??,
The Bible commands that we not ingest blood. So we should not accept whole blood or its primary components in any form, whether offered as food or as a transfusion. Note the following scriptures:
Genesis 9:4. God allowed Noah and his family to add animal flesh to their diet after the Flood but commanded them not to eat the blood. God told Noah: “Only flesh with its soul-its blood-you must not eat.” This command applies to all mankind from that time on because all are descendants of Noah.
Leviticus 17:14. “You must not eat the blood of any sort of flesh, because the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it will be cut off.” God viewed the soul, or life, as being in the blood and belonging to him. Although this law was given only to the nation of Israel, it shows how seriously God viewed the law against eating blood.
Acts 15:20. “Abstain . . . from blood.” God gave Christians the same command that he had given to Noah. History shows that early Christians refused to consume whole blood or even to use it for medical reasons.
Why does God command us to abstain from blood?
There are sound medical reasons to avoid blood transfusions. More important, though, God commands that we abstain from blood because what it represents is sacred to him.-Leviticus 17:11; Colossians 1:20.
We really should listen more to the Bible. It reveals more than you think 😊
Yes Rita
You are totally right
And yet again this generation pays the reparations for another generations mistakes. Where we getting 10 billion from?
This is Really Sick. Unbelievable.
INFECTED with WHAT!?????
Hep C, Aids...
Billions?! From where?!
Evil
It's paining for family
Dear Lord Jesus , visit this young man and cover him with your great love , there is so much pain in his eyes 😔
Why are there people here talking about gaza? These people who are victims of the blood scandle need a platform. You have a platform. Let them have theres.
Are you a bot ? There isn’t a single comment on Palestine !
@@Passin_Thru I think it is a bot, look at the name.
Definitely not only about the money
Scary stuff it puts you off using hospitals unless private in this country
Private hospitals are no better.
You wouldn't even have the chance of an inquiry in a private hospital. Would be more professional coverups and lobbying.
Geez that's bad
Always the poor have to pay with their health, followed by their tax money. Will there ever exist a government who cares about the citizens? 😢😢😢
Homer asked... HOW MUCH DOES IT COST THE FREE? now you know
I had quad bypass surgery last year. Two days before the surgery date, I realized the Dr. would more likely than not, get one or two pints of blood from the Blood bank; infested with mRNA. I called him immediately and explained my Non-Vaxxer position and my fear of getting that damn stuff from blood. After all my fighting, was I trapped like a Rat, to now have to accept this? I explained to the doctor and told him, if i had to receive blood from the Red Cross Blood bank; the surgery is off; let me die. The next morning this angel of God called me and told he he would do it without any blood products. My surgery was a huge success and I'm so happy i didn't change my ground. I won't allow any vaccine be put in me at all. The trust is GONE.
Sadly, this is going to be tiny compared to that which is to come out regarding the Covid vaccine
Don’t trust other people with your health. What does a title and qualifications mean if a doctor is nefarious by nature
Exactly the same is happening now with covid vaccines and childhood vaccines. Why isn't RS saying sorry for these. Will even this timid comment be censored? I could be saying far far worse.
More NHS FAILURE
2024 government scandals; Post office scandal, infected blood scandal, ..,. please add to this list
Both happened under labour
@@EVOpowerAnd the Tories!
2:00 name the pharmaceutical please
Did American blood recipients in that era had the same problem and got infected as well??
People on this and other comments threads have said yes!
Yes. The author Isaac Asimov was one famous victim. Go Google it.
Whistle bowers are not protected enough to Whistle blow
Needs better protection for them in legislation
They get bullied worked out ,
Of jobs , and get bad reports when need a reference for another job
Is there a tax funded blue blood bank? Or are they infected too and staying quite
What are you going to do with the money if you are 6foot under?
Yep we will be paying for the governments incompetence
This is ugly and they talk about human rights.
ASTRAZENECA'S BLOOD DONATION!
Cathy Newman failed at her interview on Jan 16, 2018!
Hey can anyone tell me about this please help me understand ?
No awareness none at all.none is found.ignornance is bless .until of course it happens to u.
Sorry this happened 4:34
ЭТО ДИКИЙ УЖАС!!!
Another old scandal never dealt with , now used as a distraction from other scandals
Should they be sleeping around and allowed to give blood how evil !? True though hey
The guy on the thumbnail looks like Jurgen Klopp
any1 still alive that was part of this going t prison?
Doesn't look like it...
grant shapps? theres a general election coming up.why was he not concerned ages ago?
I think that was Michael Green in the video
All must pay
I doubt this, they will not acknowledge harm in the current circumstances
Government compensation would be impossible due to outnumbered of Victim's. It'll be more then millions with ease maybe over billions. Remember small number always start small before goes big! 😂😂🤷♂
NHS fault .
You should be telling your viewers re the compensation available from vaccine adverse reactions om UK gov website
😮
Another present from Margaret Thatcher. 😢
Nhs is thatcher ?
@@EVOpower don't you know that she was the responsible for buying the factor 8 from the USA? And it was because of costs, it was cheaper to buy from them than making it here in the UK. She dismantled whatever she could and didn't invest in any industry... That woman was worse than the devil!
Heath, Wilson, Callaghan and Thatcher
The government don’t pay we do with our taxes …taxes will rise with this payout so they don’t fork the bill great thanks a bunch
God almighty
guarantee iff krabby patties buying a tri star over paris 1 night then jesus de posit is building on the cross with lonsdale trainers walking running up the shoots funny how them lonsdale shoes was now slip on train station at the airport step i love a live earth on see saw
Please what's Ann's telephone number, think u forgot to give the audience
Wow tiny twinkle humanity in the eyes of grant chaps