Almost 3,000 hospital patients in Scotland are estimated to have been infected with hepatitis C and 78 with HIV after failure to screen blood supplies
David Cameron has apologised on behalf of the government to thousands of people who were infected by hepatitis C and HIV after being given contaminated blood more than 30 years ago.
His apology came after an independent inquiry in Scotland into the widespread contamination of blood supplies by hepatitis C and HIV viruses called for a mass screening exercise for anyone in Scotland who was given blood before September 1991.
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