Summary
THE latest revelations on hepatitis C show that the Scottish Executive has sunk to a new low in how it is dealing with this vexed affair. On the one hand it is making a derisory financial offer to haemophiliacs which does not admit to any legal responsibility for their being contaminated through NHS blood products with this sometimes fatal virus. On the other hand it seeks to deny haemophiliacs their future legal rights should it be found that they collectively or individually have a case against the executive.
The only logical conclusion, therefore, is that the executive is aware that haemophiliacs might have a legal case against it. Otherwise, if it is so certain of its innocent position, why build in the clause that signs haemophiliacs' rights away? The executive has, of course, also denied legal aid to those affected.See the full content of this document
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New Low in Dealing with Hepatitis C Victims
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