Many people have been unfairly denied any compensation what so ever by the Govt, for being given Hepatitis CNHS blood transfusions.
For years legal buffers have been created around the whole issue of natural clearers with no thought what so ever as to the fact that this disease has already claimed the lives of over 1,000 people already and with clever rhetoric and legal buffers to not allow the criteria to be challenged!
Now sadly Anita Ruddick has also been told she has Hepatitis C so the awareness is there again...what about ordinary people whose lives were shattered by being given Hepatitis C perhaps the Govt feels it would be better we had all died so as to avoid compensating us?
Who would have ever thought that in a country that champions fights against injustices that many of our own are treated so shabbily.
This Govt has a moral and financial obligation to us all in that we were all NHS patients who were given a killer disease so they should compensate us all fairly
2007-02-19 00:53:23 · 5 answers · asked by leopardshaz 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Unfortunately the Blair party will never do the right thing and as for morals they don't know what the word means.The only financial obligations they have is to line there own pockets.Sorry but until they are gone I wouldn't hold my breath!
2007-02-19 03:58:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is all but no chance it came from the blood transfusion. The system is standardized & they use a nationwide data base to eliminate anyone who has ever tested positive. Different types of tests have different error rates. They use the ones with the most false positives & least negatives. The protocol is very strict. Much more so than in a hospital, by the way. I was a blood donor for about 8 years. I showed positive for Hep B about 13 years ago. A false positive, according to 5 screenings since. I really hope this is true in her case. I assume her partner has been tested & the Hep screen re-done. If not, they need to be. Living with my "diagnosis" for a year, I know how scary this is. I have some friends with Hep C. Only 1 got his from a transfusion over 20 years ago, when nobody knew much about it. Most of them have gone over 10 years & doing OK. 2 or 3 have been through experimental drug therapies & are, so far, testing negative. All these people have been off all alcohol & drugs. 2, who couldn't, are gone. I will have you in my prayers, wishing the best for all of you.
2016-05-24 08:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by MaryJane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government shouldn't have to compensate anyone who acquired HepC through sources in the private sector. It is the private sector who should compensate the victims not always the government.
If you really want to blame someone in government here is a list.
Ronald Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, Sen. Orrin Hatch R-utah all these clowns have steadily worked to limit or ban totally the compensation to any victims of any physically disabling injury of anykind.
2007-02-19 00:59:57 · answer #3 · answered by michael_trussell 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
why should the government compensate. It should be be responsibility of the blood bank or Dr that did the transfunsion. Granted that is a terrible disease but it is not a third partys fault.
2007-02-19 01:13:13 · answer #4 · answered by bildymooner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is the American tax payer responsible for people with Hep.C? I don't know how this virus was contracted by these people. Did the Fed.Gov. force them to get tainted blood transfused into their bodies? Did the the people who were giving the blood know it was tainted? Did they fallow protocol when testing the blood at the time it was given?
2007-02-19 01:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by Mother 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋