Ken Gray lost his job, the family home and then his wife Sandra, who died following decades of ill health due to being infected during the worst scandal in NHS history
Blood scandal was preventable and compensation is too late, say victims' families
“As the consultant told us the findings he turned to us and said: ‘We don’t expect to see this sort of thing in Hampshire’,” her husband Ken recalls. “I was very upset. It’s fair to say our relationship with him went downhill from that point.” Due to Sandra’s weakened immune system, due to the side effects of hepatitis C, she suffered further medical problems, including diabetes, encephalitis – inflammation of the brain – and neck and spine issues, including spontaneous fractures. She spent the rest of her life on immunosuppressants, which meant her body frequently picked up infections.: “Every time it happened the doctor would tell us we needed to get Sandra to hospital, but she didn’t want to go as it just wasn’t safe for her.
“But by the time she had the transplant, she’d been left for so long without help that the bile duct was totally knackered. The surgeon had to take part of her stomach lining to make a new bile duct, and that caused a lot of problems. Sandra had so many antibiotics throughout her adult life that they simply stopped working. Ken recalls the day they were told there was no hope left as if it was yesterday.
Ken added: “I’ve met a couple of people at the inquiry who bought the drugs and cleared themselves. And at the time I had the money to buy it for Sandra, but never knew about it. That was difficult to discover. It might not have worked, but we’ll never know.
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