National Health Services...
Are good, right? Right???
Well...
From Slashdot...
UPI reports that the British government covered up "a multi-decade tainted blood scandal, leading to thousands of related deaths, a report published Monday found."Britain's National Health Service allowed blood tainted with HIV and Hepatitis to be used on patients without their knowledge, leading to 3,000 deaths and more than 30,000 infections, according to the 2,527-page final report by Justice Brian Justice Langstaff, a former judge on the High Court of England and Wales. Langstaff oversaw a five-year investigation into the use of tainted blood and blood products in Britain's healthcare system between 1970 and 1991. The report blames multiple administrations over the time period for knowingly exposing victims to unacceptable risks...
In several cases, health officials lied about the risks to patients... The NHS also gave patients false reassurances, an attempt to "save face," failing victims "not once but repeatedly...." The situation could "largely, though not entirely, have been avoided," Langstaff found...
The British government on Monday began operating a support phone line for people and their families affected by the tainted blood scandal.
The article notes that Langstaff described the coverup as "subtle" but "pervasive" and "chilling in its implications...
"To save face and to save expense, there has been a hiding of much of the truth."
The full article from UPI is HERE.
I can't help but wonder how many Americans that were treated in Britain might have been affected by this mess.
Especially since it is obvious this was a long term effort. I wonder how much of this was driven by costs for 'good' blood vs. whatever they could get?
I'm just glad 'I' never had to get blood over there...
It's a vampire plot. That gets them more blood for their food stores. As their population grows and surveillance techniques increase in number and sophistication, it is harder and harder to feed themselves. "Tainted" blood is the answer.
You don't want blood from here, either. Anybody planning on upcoming surgery should bank their own blood. This goes back aways, too. When one of Gordon's daughters was a baby with severe jaundice, back in the 80s, they wanted to do a blood transfusion. This was during the beginning of the HIV-tainted blood scare. He and his first wife said they'd be happy to do this if they could donate the blood, but the hospital wouldn't do it, so they said "No thanks."