Watch again: Rishi Sunak makes statement on infected blood scandal after damning report released
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Prime minister Rishi Sunak made a statement in Parliament after the findings of a report on the infected blood scandal were revealed on Monday, 20 March.
Mr Sunak has called the findings of the inquiry a “day of national shame”, as he pledged to give victims compensation and apologised to them on behalf of successive governments.
The Government and the NHS were found to be complicit in a decades-long cover-up of actions which led to the infection of tens of thousands of people and the deaths of around 3,000, the inquiry found.
The chair of the investigation, Sir Brian Langstaff, called for the victims to be compensated.
The scandal affected more than 30,000 people in the UK who were infected with HIV and hepatitis during the 1970s and 1980s due to being given treatment with contaminated blood products, most of which “could and should have been avoided”, the report concluded.
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In 20 years from now there will be a similar day apologising for actions and lies during COVID
Those responsible should be jailed for life
Lies, hypocrisy and more lies.
Am one of the victims whom they destroyed the documents when they gave me blood donation to both hospitals under NHS from Chase farm,, high Barnet hospital as well as Whittington in archway and it was a very bad experience to live with hepatitis being a carer and nurse only to be informed about it when found infected. It was the love and the compassion which kept me looking after patients and the elderly in Bupa and NHS. Am happy for all who at least received help and compensation but life is more important than money is.
Nothing like this has already happened again.
Thalidomide...
Something even newer?
He's known which way this was going for years, and thinks sorry suffices.
The names of all those who actively covered this up and destroyed files are known. They should face conviction
for fraud and medical negligence
Will any action be taken to the doctors or not or only for government?
The best PM in history of UK!
How many have been arrested? If I steal somebody's phone, I'll be arrested immediately! Was it really an accident!!!!
this horrible situation will never be truly dealt with until those responsible for their criminal acts and cover ups are prosecuted and sent to prison
Eventhough a good quality of Restaurant but customers don't know how Kitchin staffs treat cleanly wash things.... working inside kitchen no one knows .. .
The Nazis were also known to be lovers of medical experimentation. Did some of them end up in the nhs or in parliament?
Most of them ended up in the US, working for NASA, so it's certainly possible some were welcomed here too.
Really?
Fritz ter Meer was an interesting character
@@moonshineflowery IG Farben never went away, they just rebranded.
i agree with all sides of the house
Same and the victims and families.
Prime minister in charge during HILLSBOROUGH
Maggie Thatcher - Tory
oh dear, oh dear, & to think that it was only a few short weeks back when Ritchy W.E.F. was still quite publicly intoning the ‘saFE & eFfEctiVE’ mantra to the public at large, in spite of the already widely recognised issues.
Trust that ‘$CIENCE’, you ARE ‘the research’.
So what happens to those complicit in the cover up & downright lies in essence responsible for they say 3,000 deaths U suspect its many more, as usual politician get off scot free, I have more respect for thieves at least if they get caught thye serve prison sentences but these odious people seem to make careers out of it!
Gosh imagine if there had been a massive scandal involving the NHS when Sunak was in government.
Oh, wait...
Sunak and Moderna.
Love watching this melt attempt to display emotion 😂😂😂
Hmmm
Thatcherism.....
Just Keep your mouth shut and pay your taxes😊
MPs in charge during covid- Tories
Both sides agreed with the experimental jabs and all the lockdown and masking nonsense
How shallow.
Hypocrite.
Thank you Mr prime minister Sunak may God bless you. But it's still happening in other places in particular care homes and care agencies.
Kier must be pm, I had goose bumps listening to him.❤❤
yeah has a more softer tone than the rest
Unfortunately both Sunak and Starmer are WEF puppets. Along with Dave, blairand many others..
Sunak the Ratman comes out of his tunnel all greased up what a stink. In uk schools in the 70s he would not have got away with it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂