The Herald (Scotland)

Inquiry transcripts show pain of HIV contamination

A HAEMOPHILIAC who was infected with HIV after being given contaminated blood at an Edinburgh hospital as a teenager told an inquiry how doctors had “used and abused” him, according to testimonies published for the first time...

...The “pain and suffering” of people who contracted HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood and blood products during the 1970s and 80s was revealed yesterday as transcripts from the Penrose Inquiry were made public. Patients and relatives of those who died had given evidence anonymously at closed hearings between March and June...

...One witness, a haemophiliac using the name “Mark”, told the inquiry how he had been infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being treated at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1984, when he was 13...

...In a statement released yesterday, Thompsons Solicitors said the transcripts illustrated the “incredible pain and suffering” caused by the scandal and called for “no stone to be left unturned” in the quest to get answers.

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