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NHS Hepatitis C Infections
NHS Hepatitis C Infections
100,000 NHS healthcare infected patients are still out there.
Transfusion Hepatitis C infections happened across a wide spectrum of blood products and usages. The period from 1945 - 1993 saw an enormous growth in transfusion use and a array of new blood products. Healthcare infections happened on many levels
Contaminated Blood Transfusions
Contaminated Dialysis,
Contaminated Reused Syringes and Vials and other Invasive Equipment
Contaminated Blood Products - Clotting Factors, Immuno globins, Internal Stitches, Processed Plasma
Contaminated Organ Transplants - Eyes, Bone Marrow, Livers, Hearts, Skin and Kidneys.
In the UK far more people got Hepatitis C from surgery/transfusion than other routes, more than 50% of the worlds Hepatitis C was from this route alone. (100 million infections)
Globally we see about 10 to 20 times as many people on dialysis got Hepatitis C as patients than those on factor VIII, in the Cambridgeshire PCT the ratio was 20 to 1.
The breakdown on the NHS Infections surviving is
20,000 Dialysis, 5,000 Transplant, 15,000 Blood Product, 55,000 Transfusion/Surgery, 4,000 Factor VIII Survivors.
To diagnose and warn these patients, approximately needs "reaching" over a million NHS patients having procedures before 1993.
Overseas Healthcare Hepatitis C Infections now outnumber NHS ones.
The breakdown on overseas Healthcare Survivors who have migrated here with Hepatitis B or C is worse, of some 15 million who have arrived from areas where healthcare was more infectious we have some 1% plus testing Hepatitis C positive or at least 150,000 more
infections from contaminated transfusions or reused healthcare syringes.
