Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have told an inquiry that their medical records were “destroyed”.
A father fought back tears as he told the Infected Blood Inquiry that his teenage son died of Aids after being infected through treatment for haemophilia but no hospital medical records existed.
A woman who contracted hepatitis C through a blood transfusion said that she was left feeling “completely rejected by society” after being “lied to” and her missing medical records continued to hamper her treatment.
Thousands of patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C via contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, and about 2,400 people died. It has been called the NHS’s worst treatment disaster.
John McDougall told the inquiry, which is taking evidence in…
