Thursday 2 May 2019 2:26 AM UTC
London May 2: A long-awaited inquiry is opening in Britain into how contaminated blood was used to treat thousands of people in the 1970s and ’80s, killing at least 2,400.
Thousands of hospital patients – many of them hemophiliacs – were infected with HIV or Hepatitis C through tainted blood products, largely imported from the United States.
Previous investigations have been branded a whitewash by victims’ campaigners. In 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May ordered a new inquiry, with the power to summon witnesses.
As hearings began Tuesday, May said “today will begin a journey which will be dedicated to getting to the truth of what happened and in delivering justice to everyone involved.
” The inquiry, led by a retired judge, will spend months hearing from victims in London and around the country.
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