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The UK's Response versus the rest of the world
The UK's Contaminated Blood Response in a Global Context
Just a few contrasts highlight the magnitude of the disservice done to victims of Contaminated Blood
Below is a snap shot of 14 contrasts in care globally suffered by victims from 1989
- US noted 150,000 infections from transfusions in 1994 yet the UK denies a blood threat and even haemophiliacs begin an agonising journey to get a proper response
- The World looks back and warns the at risk from 1993 England abandons all non a non b patient files in 1993 for years
- Canada does $1.2 billion in compensation and writes to every patient in 1997. In 1997 the UK "invents" hep c is new and does a “Wait & See” Policy
- America plans billions for 200,000 deaths in the next decade. The UK expects a few hundred deaths, its strategy states low testing means “some people will die” in 2004
- EU issues nationwide testing campaigns from 1992 to 2017. England have to wait until 2002 for a Hepatitis C Trust and 2004 for a Hepatitis B Trust to begin some publicity.
- The EU admits to a continent wide 0.45% contaminated with Hepatitis C transfusion blood risk, the UK have a tiny team behind closed doors ignore numerous patient groups testing 2% Hepatitis C positive and invent a construct that just 0.05% of units may have been infectious here.
- The US goes through its transfusion records and looks back to write to every patient to get tested from 1994, the UK sets about destroying its entire transfusion record.
- France has a campaign job place a bomb under a Minister car and legally prosecutes politicians concerned, the UK decides to destroy all the political files related to Hepatitis C and Lord Owen Secretary of State for Health has his entire cache of Ministerial notes broken into and destroyed also.
- Tattoo Warnings and medical studies happen in France, Ausralia and the US in 2001. England has no information or test kits for tattooists until 2014.
- US Campaign to Amber Alert Hospitals using Prison blood in 1998. From 1989-2017 the UK has barely a person aware that its blood mainstay was its prisons.
- WHO release global epidemic death certificate procedures for hepatitis c fatalities in 1999, in the UK death toll figures make Hepatitis C 4 times less deadly per head than anywhere else on Earth
- Europe and North America aim for higher visibility than Aids for transfusion hepatitis from 1997 while in the UK we finally in 2005 get a first Hepatitis C Campaign called Faceit which AVOIDS patient testing and targets the 90% of Hepatitis C for Heroin Addicts.
- China plans 50 million tests in 5 years from 2000 yet in 2017 the UK has no hospital or GP warning posters and the WHO Infection Atlases are still unused.
- Justice Krever in Canada notes 28,000 Canadians were infected with Hepatitis C contaminated blood from 1986 to 1990, in the UK a small group of NHS employees behind closed doors ignored test reports of a 1% Hepatitis C UK Prevalence and compute a probability that just 1,400 a year were infected here from 1980 to 1990 by the NHS.
