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Infected blood victims should get £100k each compensation ‘without delay’, inquiry says | UK News
The more than 4,000 surviving victims of the tainted blood scandal will each receive no less than £100,000 “without delay”, said the chairman of the Contaminated Blood Inquiry.
Nearly 3,000 people died after being infected with HIV or hepatitis C by contaminated blood products imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s.
The UK is dependent on supplies imported from the US, where it is produced using blood collected from prisoners, sex workers, drug addicts and other high-risk groups who are paid to give blood.