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Campaign group, Tainted Blood, have launched a petition on the Prime Minister’s website to encourage the government to listen to the recommendations made for victims of contaminated blood in Lord Archer of Standwell recent report.

Tainted Blood member, Mark Ward, says more than 2,000 people have died from infections such as HIV and Hepatitis C as a result of contaminated blood, which can be passed onto them through blood transfusions.

He said that it has been reported that hundreds of haemophiliacs have been exposed to the human form of Mad Cow Disease, CJD.

The petition, which is currently ranked 48th place out of 4838 on the website, urges the government to put in place Lord Archer’s recommendations.

The report was based on a two year inquiry into blood contamination and recommends adequate funding for the UK Haemophilia Society, to create a statutory Haemophilia committee that would include patient representation and compensation for victims and their families.

Mr Ward said:
“We believe it is imperative that the government acts swiftly and urgently to do this, as people are currently dying at the rate of more than one a month without having any answers as to how this was allowed to happen and without knowing whether their families will be made financially secure in the future. On one day alone, recently, there were two funerals, two widows and two grieving families, including seven children.”

For more information about Tainted Blood, visit:
www.taintedblood.info
and to sign the petition, visit;
petitions.number10.gov.uk/contaminated/

Pictured Lord Archer of Standwell