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Infected Blood Inquiry : Accusations of a “Criminal Cover-Up” @andyburnham has been one of the most vocal political figures calling for legal accountability, describing the actions of authorities in stark terms: “I believe that this scandal amounts to a criminal cover-up on an industrial scale”. Recommending legal consequences for those responsible. @fionatwycross @UKHouseofLords @cabinetofficeuk James Quinault Robin Healey @UKParliament Louise Haigh Our PM made this comment. He has since been silent. Ignoring campaigners, societies and trusts who wrote into him. Is this what we want from our Prime Minister! @ashishskynews @PrivateEyeNews @TheNewsAgents @Nigel_Farage @KemiBadenoch

@andyburnham at the infected blood inquiry you affirmed that the UK Government had “comprehensively failed the victims of infected blood”. You have compounded this trauma by your lack of response to the letters that were handed in by Trusts and campaigners. You simply cannot rewrite the narrative, and harm that was shown to this community by ignoring us. @fionatwycross @cabinetofficeuk @DHSCgovuk

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@andyburnham do you have anything to say seeing as you was so vocal in your oral evidence ? @cabinetofficeuk @fionatwycross @UKHouseofLords @UKParliament James Quinault there is no sweeping this under the carpet anymore. Haemophiliacs were abused by the state and you continue to ignore the mono HCV haemophiliacs who have not had their childhood education losses and lost job prospects recognised. Children were given factor 8 that was known to carry a 100% risk of HCV infection! @KieranMullanUK @CliveEfford @DianaJohnsonMP @IanLaveryMP @HaemoSocUK @katehaemophili1 @IanByrneMP @LabLab15460 @GraymF1 @DarcusWolfe

@andyburnham PM you stated at the Infected Blood inquiry : That the government’s response over the decades was primarily driven by a “fear of financial exposure” rather than the needs of victims. Is this why you will not recognise financial losses for education and job prospects. Children were exposed to a multitude of viruses through factor 8 on every dose. F8 contained a 100% transmission of HCV. Not a single haemophiliac has been compensated for the medical negligence at the hands of the state. @DHSCgovuk knew the risk when moving to larger pools. Findings in the report explicitly criticises authorities for “failing to enforce rigorous donor selection criteria”. @fionatwycross How can a child fighting multiple rounds of HCV be expected to achieve their full education potential. Add to that the stigma that was rife in the 80s & 90s exacerbated by the government “dont die of ignorance” campaign. The answer is they didn’t. We ask that you sit down with haemophiliac campaigners / victims and societies who lived through this horrendous time. @UKHouseofLords @HouseofCommons @KieranMullanUK @DianaJohnsonMP @CliveEfford @katehaemophili1 @HaemoSocUK_PI @HaemoSocUK @ConanMci @IBCA_UK @sianberry @GraymF1 @LabLab15460 @DarcusWolfe

Sir Brian concluded the following re Factor VIII:- Lack of rigorous standards : rather than suggesting F8 should have bypassed regulation, the report explicitly criticises authorities for failing to enforce rigorous donor selection criteria, failing to restrict plasma pool sizes and failing to properly scrutinise products made from paid doners. @fionatwycross @GOVUK @cabinetofficeuk Is this why the cabinet office overseen by James Quinault and their very well paid legal firm chose to ignore route of infection and thus hide governments failings ?? #NotRecognised #NotAnAccident @andyburnham you was very vocal at the inquiry have you now been silenced! @sianberry @KieranMullanUK @KemiBadenoch @ZackPolanski @Nigel_Farage

Sir Brian concluded the following re factor VIII. Failure of the licensing regime: the inquiry found that the U.K. government wrongly licensed and permitted the importation of commercial factor VIII concentrates. Not a single haemophiliac has been recognised for this negligence! The Government scheme recognises viruses but not route of infection and the failures that @GOVUK allowed when licensing Factor VIII for use on a vulnerable group of haemophiliacs. Some were only a couple of days old. @andyburnham @fionatwycross @GOVUK @cabinetofficeuk @katehaemophili1 @HaemoSocUK_PI @HaemoSocUK @CliveEfford @KieranMullanUK @DianaJohnsonMP @IBCA_CEO_UK #NotRecognised #NotAnAccident @GraymF1 @steveb297 @Gooders2023 @LabLab15460 @PrivateEyeNews @TheNewsAgents @guardian @itvnews @cazjwheeler

Who approved factor VIII in the @DHSCgovuk who signed to say that it was safe? Who gave the “green light” to use haemophiliacs for research. Who signed off the paperwork to proceed? Who also took out the sentence in the governments draft document when discussing lost career / education opportunities for infected children? When talking about financial losses, the draft document stated that “it would not benefit those who were impacted so much earlier in life that they were not able to even embark on the necessary steps for that Career”. Is that not an admission that infected children including those with HCV. Who have not been recognised for their lost childhood would have been dramatically impacted, thus affecting their career path? @fionatwycross @IBCA_CEO_UK @cabinetofficeuk Robin Healey Louise Haigh James Quinault @CliveEfford @andyburnham @KieranMullanUK @DianaJohnsonMP @sianberry These questions need answers!

@andyburnham you was very vocal regarding haemophiliacs being given infected blood and that it was known it was contaminated. Since you have become PM you have been silent! Our group MHH wrote to you and this letter was handed in by myself. You have not replied and sadly our community feel completely blindsided by your lack of candor. @fionatwycross @cabinetofficeuk @LouHaigh Robin Healey @UKHouseofLords It is unacceptable that Mono HCV haemophiliacs keep being swept under the carpet. We were knowingly infected with dirty disease ridden factor as children. We lost our education and future job prospects. We would have had an education had @DHSCgovuk not given the go ahead to use haemophiliacs for research. We are not the same as a life saving blood transfusion victim. Every batch of factor VIII contained HCV, every batch! That is 100% risk of viral infection. Blood transfusion was less than 1% and given to save a life. Factor VIII was given to kids who were mild haemophiliacs for tooth extraction, joint pain and almost for the hell of it. @DHSCgovuk have given us a life sentence we urge you @katehaemophili1 @HaemoSocUK to speak up for our forgotten cohort of mono HCV haemophiliacs. To ignore us means you have sadly failed us. @DianaJohnsonMP @CliveEfford @sianberry @KieranMullanUK @IanLaveryMP @GraymF1 @Gooders2023 @LabLab15460 @PrivateEyeNews @ConanMci @IBCA_CEO_UK @IBCA_UK