Hancock pledges payouts over infected blood scandal – like those the Windrush victims are still awaiting?
Matt Hancock: would you believe a promise by this man?
Matt Hancock has promised that the government will pay compensation to people infected by contaminated blood products – and their families – if a public inquiry into the scandal demands it.
What a pretty promise!
Here it is:
The health secretary told the inquiry: “I respect the process of the inquiry and I will respect its recommendations, and should the inquiry’s recommendations point to compensation, then of course we will pay compensation.”
This Site has reported on the infected blood scandal before, and the Guardian‘s account of it is as good as any:
As many as 30,000 people became severely ill after being given factor VIII blood products contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C imported from the US in the 1970s and 80s. Others were exposed to tainted blood through transfusions or after childbirth. On average one person is dying every four days, with approximately 3,000 haemophiliacs having died to date.
The question is: why should we believe Hancock?
His record hardly speaks for his honesty.
And as for his government’s record on payouts… here’s the National Audit Office, discussing another recent scandal:
95% of Windrush victims have yet to be compensated.
There is no justice.
— Jon Trickett MP (@jon_trickett) May 21, 2021
If the death rate really is as reported, then considering the government’s tardiness in stumping up compensation cash…
I wonder if any of the victims will see a single brass farthing before they die.
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