
The shocking figures that highlight the scale of the contaminated blood scandal
Nobody has ever been prosecuted, but thousands have suffered directly from the scandal with infections – and unknowingly passed them on to partners.
Nobody has ever been prosecuted, but thousands have suffered directly from the scandal with infections – and unknowingly passed them on to partners.
In the 1970s and early 1980s blood products were manufactured from blood imported into the UK from risky sources.
Philip Aldworth KC apologised on behalf of the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service and the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.