Your current location:HOME >entertainment >Inquiry slams UK authorities for failures that killed thousands in infected blood scandal 正文
TIME:2024-05-21 15:03:38 Source: Internet compilationEdit:entertainment
LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of
LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday.
An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses after receiving blood or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s to the early 1990s.
The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948.
Former judge Brian Langstaff, who chaired the inquiry, slammed successive governments and medical professionals for “a catalogue of failures” and refusal to admit responsibility to save face and expense. He found that deliberate attempts were made to conceal the scandal, and there was evidence of government officials destroying documents.
I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £4002024-05-21 15:02
CPC official urges stronger sense of responsibility in united front work to serve modernization2024-05-21 14:55
China to launch awareness campaign on national security laws2024-05-21 14:53
Hurricanes maintain unbeaten run in dominant win over Chiefs2024-05-21 14:42
Election 2024: Biden and Trump bypassed the Commission on Presidential Debates2024-05-21 14:32
China to launch awareness campaign on national security laws2024-05-21 13:22
Feature: Japan2024-05-21 13:11
U.S. politicians' national security paranoia intensifies2024-05-21 13:00
Supreme Court rejects an appeal from a Canadian man once held at Guantanamo2024-05-21 12:37
Bazaar train boosts incomes for residents in Xinjiang, NW China2024-05-21 12:27
What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky2024-05-21 15:02
Chinese researchers unravel high2024-05-21 14:59
Commentary: Philippines' provocation undermines regional stability2024-05-21 14:41
U.S. politicians' national security paranoia intensifies2024-05-21 14:27
Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI2024-05-21 13:52
Desert county in NW China's Xinjiang experiences bountiful cistanche harvest2024-05-21 13:46
Feature: China2024-05-21 13:42
China committed to developing traditional friendly cooperation with DPRK: top legislator2024-05-21 13:27
Devout Christian doctor, 68, who punched dementia2024-05-21 12:53
Hurricanes maintain unbeaten run in dominant win over Chiefs2024-05-21 12:20