Contaminated blood scandal: We were lied to, say victims
Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have said they were lied to, and condemned cover-ups and denials as “disgraceful”.
More than 30,000 people were infected with deadly viruses while they were receiving NHS care between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
Former IT consultant Rosamund Cooper, 50, said that cover-ups highlighted in the report were “disgraceful” and showed that victims had been “lied to”.
She was diagnosed with Von Willebrand disease, a bleeding disorder, when she was eight months old, and found out she had been infected with hepatitis C when she was 19.
Ms Cooper said: “I think one of the key things for me, which I have seen in what I’ve
