The Infected Blood Inquiry is currently ongoing.
There were 75 pupils who died at Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire Students who attended a school where 75 pupils died from being given infected blood treatments claim present day staff ‘deny responsibility’. The Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire was the only school in the country with an NHS haemophilia centre on site. At least 89 were infected with HIV, hepatitis C or both through contaminated drugs out of 119 with haemophilia in the 1970s and 1980s.
‘It has been shocking to discover, through the ongoing public inquiry, that some of our students may have received treatment there which was unsafe or experimental, and that the NHS did not always obtain sufficient consent.’ Four survivors Gary Webster, Steve Nicholls, Ade Goodyear and Richard Warwick issued a joint statement in response which says: ‘We take issue with the idea that effectively they too were a victim.
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