A victim of the infected blood scandal has criticised the Chancellor's announcement of compensation of at least £10 billion, telling LBC that it 'isn't about money... thousands of people died'.
A victim of the infected blood scandal has criticised the Chancellor's announcement of compensation of at least £10 billion, telling LBC that it "isn't about money... thousands of people died". Tens of thousands of people were infected with contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s. Around 3,000 are known to have died, but many more who unwittingly contracted hepatitis C may also have died.
But his liver had been scarred and he was left with cirrhosis, and in the past couple of months was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, a kind of liver cancer.He said that Monday's report announcement would be an "earthquake". Announcing a compensation package for victims in an interview in The Sunday Times, Mr Hunt told of how he promised to "sort" a fair and full settlement during a meeting with campaigner Mike Dorricott in 2014.
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