'What had happened to them was incredibly bad luck - awful - and it was not something that anybody was unsympathetic to.'
It has been called the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history and was the result of a new treatment intended to make lives better.
People with haemophilia, including many young children, were infected, along with others who were given a blood transfusion after surgery. Campaigners say those infected decades ago are now dying at the rate of one every four days as a result. Sir John Major did not hold a position in government in the 1970s or early 1980s when most of those infected were treated with contaminated blood products.
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