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Theresa May: Infected Blood Inquiry highlights ‘abject failure’ of British state

Source: PA Wire

Theresa May has insisted Government officials must “serve the public and not protect themselves” after the Infected Blood Inquiry highlighted an “abject failure” of the British state.

Conservative MP Mrs May ordered the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal while she was prime minister in 2017, saying at the time it was an “appalling tragedy which should simply never have happened”.

More than 30,000 people were infected with deadly viruses while they were receiving NHS care between the 1970s and 1990s.

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