Inquiry urges immediate compensation to victims of contaminated blood

bmj;378/aug02_11/o1925/FAF1faTayfun Salci/ZUMA/AlamyVictims Lee Moorey, Richard Warwick, Neil Steve Nichols, Melanie Richmond, and Neil Weller outside the infected blood inquiry on 27 July. The inquiry chairman has called for interim compensation payments of no less than £100 000 (€120 000; $122 000) to be made to each of the surviving victims of the contaminated blood scandal “without delay.”Brian Langstaff made the call as his inquiry published its interim report into the issue of compensation to victims of the scandal, in which at least 2400 people are known to have died after contracting HIV or hepatitis C through NHS treatments in the 1970s and 1980s.Warwick, who was infected with HIV and two forms of hepatitis as a young boy in 1978 after being given contaminated treatment, said compensation was long overdue. “Finally, after all this time, it’s recognition of the harm that’s been done to us and a way of compensating victims…
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