Infected blood scandal: 'This is a day of shame for the British state' ,says Rishi Sunak
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologised to the victims of the infected blood scandal, saying it was a "day of shame for the British state".
Mr Sunak said the scandal should have been avoided as he gave a statement in the House of Commons after the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry's final report.
The document blamed "successive governments, the NHS, and blood services" for failures that led to 30,000 people being "knowingly" infected with either HIV or Hepatitis C through blood products - around 3,000 of whom have now died.
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No, the shame falls on the companies who supplied the contaminated blood products, the NHS, and the politicians who failed to call it out and stop it... repeatedly.
The Federal government knew it was contaminated and still allowed the sale abroad.
blood from USA.
3000 died and more and infected, who is in prison for that? No one?
It started in the early 1970s... I doubt many people initially involved are still alive, and yes it lasted 20 years, so people would be in there 80s and 90s by this point
@@arfgrogue5735 they should still pay
This is islamic jihad by Islamic infiltration in NHS BY FOREIGN STUDENTS.
Everyone named should be prosecuted, stripped of titles, lordships and the usual trimmings of political failures! This is not the fault of the British people!
This started as early as 1970 to 1990... so the people initially involved are most likely dead now.
And for once, the current people within the government would also not be to blame since it ended over 30 years ago, current MPs in place would not have had the role they're in now. So unless ur suggesting stripping the titles of dead people or people in their 90s, your response to this would end in vain.
Off course but after they die ? Classic British and American policy we do what we want when we want and how we want
This is the result when the PM is more interested in pleasing Netanyahu than spending efforts in rebuilding NHS...shame!
He’s been in Parliament for nearly 9 years. He knew he ignored.
This happened 40 years ago and has nothing to do with the governments of today.
Every day is a day of shame for the British state
The same in America. We can't trust government, politicians, from any country.
Thief!
They came to ERITREA AND STEAL THE FIRST, "TELEFERICA" IN AFRICA...AND SOLD IT TO INDIA OR PAKISTAN...
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Very true 👍
@@maisies927Well, if governments didn't exist, what then?😂 might as well live in the dark ages, lol.
Either way, let's be thankful governments in the west are not like N.Korea😂
The greater shame is that the government is taking no steps to investigate the manifest problems relating to covid vaccines, which could easily be as needlessly tragic as the blood scandal. Will we have to wait another two or three decades for that day of shame?
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Yet no one fired or jailed
A bunch of clowns
Big Phama has captured government.
Disgrace of the government
They are captured by big Phama. Some people did try and tell us.
Which one?
For something that happened in the 70’s
@@alexanderde-sowah857it starts in 70s but the NHS continued to infect people right up to the late 1990s. That's how they killed 3,000 of us. I was infected in 1974 but in 2024 I'm lucky to be here. So it didn't start or end in the 70s and there are some reports that the harvesting of blood from sick donor's in American prisons continues to this day. The German government is very concerned about Bayer blood derived products and their safety.
NOT JUST THIS ONE, ALL OF THEM FROM THE LAST 50 YEARS
I don’t believe a single word he said
At least, this is a day of shame for UK
ummm so who is going to jail for this or did i miss something?? since it was a cover up of 3,000 deaths plus harm done to so many others. All involved need to be arrested!
Execs from Bayer in France were jailed over a decade ago, here...nothing
Talk is cheap.
Are we to hear apologies from former Prime Ministers? Former Health Secretaries? Former Ministers of Health and former Civil Servants charged with running Health Departments? Are we to see a handing in of Honors, or stripping of Titles? I don't think so, more is the pity!!
Don’t hold your breath.
Alot are probably already dead...
Alot are probably already dead lol...
Exactly, what is the point of this?We need all the ones involved in JAIL!!!
Where is the murder investigation?
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Politicians not accountable for anyone or anything. They are about as much use as a sour fart
Is US accountable for providing tainted blood and destroying lives globally? In 1980, my father was given a tainted blood transfusion at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas during heart bypass surgery. He immediately turned yellow in intensive care and suffered for decades until his death. Houston Methodist Hospital admitted error, but refused all accountability. He was abandoned without treatment and left on his own to suffer without care. Will the UK hold US accountable for tainted blood?
Apologies won’t bring back those that have passed or now Ill . Will they go to prison
no one will go to prison, within the uk only poor people go to jail and pay taxes
And the NHS medical depts who we pay that actually did this get away scott free do they ?. I wouldn't care if all politicians disappeared, but I certainly wouldn't let the NHS failures of the ground staff teams not to go without blame or accountability.
How did the student nurse who gave me 4 pints of poisonous blood know what she was giving me? She did what she was instructed.
The NHS didn't know until it was too late. The execs at Bayer knew it was contaminated and pulled it from the US market and dumped it across Europe and Japan to turn a profit on a product that they couldn't get away with selling in the states. Their own internal memos proved they knew all about it.
This is horrible
As a British National and a member of the British Public 'WE' would now expect Criminal Prosecutions to quickly ensue after Todays Report ASAP. End.
I knew someone who was infected by contaminated hemophilia treatments. He died. 💔
Very sorry for him
How much more people have to endure from these miserable, incompetent politicians?
rich people who run these companies will never go to jail as they donate heavy amount to political parties.
People need to see prison time for this.
WHO OWNED THE AMERICAN BLOOD COMPANY, WHO PROFITED, WHO’S FOUNDATION WAS IT…THIRDLY…
Where are the arrests?
Sunak wasn't even born when this started...
Like the Post Office scandal no one will ever be prosecuted.
Still are failing us!
Has he admitted they have been failing for atleast a decade
Because of their guidelines and monitoring
Unimaginable....what happened to the medical ethics?
Well, welcome to Uk
What a utter shameful thing to happen to anyone especially when this is a first world country with state of the art screening facilities unlike third world countries that do not have the facilities to screen the blood properly . This was preventable and the government of the time is largely to blame going back to the 1970’s in the failure of funding for the NHS staff and facilities
Unforgivable, devastating, and devious…..but will there be consequences, and change……. otherwise this is just lip service as usual!
June 1st Trafalgar
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This is nothing compared to the new scandal of a certain medical intervention carried out post 2021!
They're going to be saying the same thing about the covid vaccination
A DAY Of Anger A DAY Of Shame AND A DAY We Must NEVER FORGET !!! This Is What These Government's Are Capable Of !!!
Shame is a vague and unknowable concept for the sort of person attracted to politics. It's difficult to know how to attract the right sort of people into the job.
Every day is
One of many!!
Why so long?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.....scam
The remark inappropriately suggests that one can be infected with a disease because of a failing of their own, as compared with the victims of this matter. No one is at fault for getting sick regardless of vector.
'More' British shame.
But nobody talks about where the infected blood comes from. Why??
most of it imported from the U.S.
How can it be calculated how many died?
How can it be calculated how many infected?
How can they be paid when Great Britain doesn't have the solvency to do so?
How many times was HIV passed on through sex, or given to the unborn from mothers, with someone wrongly blamed?
Who knew tainted blood was mixed with clean blood?
Who can be held accountable for something that happened 30 years ago?
It's my experience that Rishi Sunak is a liar and cannot be trusted about; "Government integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level", 25/10/22 outside number 10.
Mr hypocrite
utter disgrace. more than 3000 deaths!
Ken Clarke, 173 Melton Road, Nottingham NG2 6JL
Didn't he vote against compensation? The scummer.
Quick, privatise it so we can all go bankrupt with insurance payments!
A public shame and a big disgrace.
I would sue the hell out of them if me or family member was hurt by this DISGRACE
Disgusting people! Shame on them!
Pretending he cares , that any of them care.
Oh my anything he does u wine like grow up cause he wasn’t the one who did it
What would Margaret Thatcher would say about all this if she would have been still alive?
We can not trust anyone in the government 😭😭😭😭
Did everyone notice the Speaker not even listening to the speech
Se beside being very, very sorry. Who is going to jail?
Why are the USA not implicated?
Suddenly developed scruples,anybody would think there was an election coming!
Only took them 40 years to fess-up...
Right. How does anyone trace back to HIV domino effect for 40 years?
And the very next day when the compensation details are revealed it seems the fight continues. There is no compensation if peoples regular payments are taken away and the compensation has to be used to keep a roof over their heads.
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So, he says ''sorry'' and ''money's no object'' (now) and that makes everything ok?
One a week at this point (scandals)
How many days of shame do we have to live through, The Torrie's are still doing it to people, PIP UC, Foodbanks, Pandemic, 210.000 died, Brexit. A general election must now be called Now.
While innocent people died the honours were still being handed out. People complicit in this scandal made a Lord.....shameful and disgusting from a so-called decent country
A day to prove the solid friendship between US and UK🤣
“Trust the experts” …people need to be in jail this is what happens when money is your life …
Why did Rishy say 'it was known these TREATMENTS were contaminated'?
Freudian slip?
Everyday is shame for these crocks
A shame for the british state? I think he meant the people in that room and the companies who did this not the entire state thanks
eugenics
Shocked and saddened !
unsurprised & vindicated
So I take it todays truth will only be revealed in forty years, followed by a sorry
What a disgrace !!
COVID vaccine
How can anyone apologise for the damage and the loss of life that this has caused and the familys of those generations destroyed and gone forever
Listening
I cant really believe this is happening in UK🇬🇧What hv they done to the public health care in UK🙌I never thought healthcare in UK is so awful, perhaps worse than India😢
This government should be investigated by the icc
“They failed this country” that’s rich coming from Soggy Sunak, who made the British economy worse than before
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Scandles.with no conciseness equal more scandles
what a disgrace!
Why can’t we deal with our problems at the time and not leave them to mount.
Yet the same nurses were the one's on strike wanting more money 😂
No relevance
Rishi couldn't wait to commit the incoming labour gov. to a massive compensation bill.
don't shoot the messenger...time the civil service had a massive change of direction...i mean, mps get briefed from whom? andy burnham said on bbc breakfast about his time as health sectretary..another day, another country...hmm - time that cross-party got some backbone, civil servants investigated..numerous successive governments have failed...andy burnham could, and should, have gone to the leader and said "i know something" (as health secretary)...yes, he is a successful manchester mayor, however, and finally, see it, say it, sort it
Oh what a surprise... 🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐😵💫😵💫😵💫
Lots more days of shame in the months and years ahead for our inept and deceitful leaders…!!
Lots of conspiracies coming to light.
All MPs guilty should be held accountable
Shame³
Rotten governments 🎉🎉 rotten leaders 🎉🎉
Rotten NHS 🙊🙉🙈
The day of shame for this country was when sunak became pm.
Par for the course.
Pharmaceutical industry ensuring they have future customers. No money to be made in a cure but plenty to ne made in tratment smh.
I bet the owners of the company has a isreali passport just like so many on the benches left and right
Sunak will push every angle to help move in American healthcare companies, even if it involves apologising for something he wasn't involved in. It also distracts from his lowest ever poll.
This is shocking for a country that's colonialist like every nation of the world 🌎🌍
Only in UK
Rishi: doesn't help
Starmer: HELPS.
They should put an option for automatic translator without accent , or this guy has a flu