Ministers accepted urgency of need of those infected in 1970s and 1980s, who are dying at the rate of one every four days
- ‘My family was destroyed’: relatives of blood scandal victims get nothing
Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal have been awarded interim government payments after a 40-year battle, but thousands of parents and children of the victims have still received nothing.
Ministers have accepted the urgency of the need to make the £100,000 payments to about 3,000 surviving victims, after being warned that those mistakenly infected with HIV and hepatitis C were dying at the rate of one every four days.
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