www.thetruthabouthepc.org.uk
saving lives from
contaminated blood since 2004
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Who is at Risk
Who is at risk from NHS and Overseas Healthcare Hepatitis B and C
Get tested if you have run the following NHS risks
- Transfusion before 1993
- Dialysis before 1993
- Major Surgery before 1993 (Cardiac, C-Section etc)
- Blood Products before 1993 (immunoglobins/plasma/platelets)
- Transplants until now
The above healthcare is the most common reason for 2.0% of the worlds population getting hepatitis c,
so do not think it 's rare.
The above healthcare was often a risk until 2005 in parts of Africa and Asia. Inoculations and Injections had in Africa and Asia before 2000 are also very worth testing, especially if you remember being lined up at school for injections.
If you have run the above risks, get tested fast.
Most hepatitis c patients have no symptoms until real damage has been done. So, especially, if your lifestyle is hard on your liver, knowing your hep c status, can help safeguard your future.
How many need a test? Several Million people, fast.
The message above has been very poorly publicised by the Department of Health. This failure is killing up to 100,000 people.
If you may have been long term undiagnosed, it is urgent you get tested.
With the passing of time, it becomes important to focus on the hepatitis c epidemic in terms of saving lives. To stand up and finally take note of the toll this virus can exact and in particular, to see that with a 30-50 year lag during which the virus does its damage, we have hundreds of thousands of long term undiagnosed people out there.
This will be a group most at danger towards retirement, their key risks will be the common normal toxins alcohol, medicines (6% of A&E admissions are drug reactions), obesity. Dame Anita Roddick was an extremely intelligent women, yet she was not able to achieve a test and diagnosis until needing a liver transplant. There are hundreds of thousands of NHS patients who have run her risk and certainly don't have her resources, to tell them they need a test. For of all things a covered up hospital superbug. Still our older patients are not coming forward for testing; This is the challenge, and at once our greatest, gravest risk.
We have tried to clean up prisons, we have succeeded in cleaning up our blood supply, but all this will pale to nothing if we overlook the testing of patients who've run risks and warning those who are infected. If we don't, obviously hcv will kill more people in the UK per head than anywhere else in the world. It is important to keep the focus on saving lives, not trying to stop infections. The bulk of the preventable infecting is long over now. The bulk of the preventable deaths is what matters now.
