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troubles here for the burial. we same say only time we may chop. community to feel. is just happens all the time and we always sigh we must stop meeting like this most . of them. take the position you'll raise taxes to be tough to me i swear by almighty god i swear by almighty god the evidence i should get that there were times i should give to see the truth shall be the truth the whole tree the whole truth and nothing about nothing but the truth if you stay gone for. john work.

and. i was getting. richard has a form of him a failure in severe inherited disorder the ability to. the slightest injury an internal bleed or even just a bruise could cause irreparable damage. every day richard inject himself with the blood clotting agent factor 8 these days it's sterile and safe but in the mid seventy's and early eighty's a treatment like this infected about 5 people in the u.k.

with either. or even both. richard was a monk and he had to undergo a series of treatments. are very cross. side effects mood swings and sweating and. after take. drugs. in the 1970 s. a new drug called factor 8 was released to using human blood it promised a much easier life for him affiliate they no longer needed to go to hospital and could self administered the treatment by injection at any time or convenient place . but it had one fatal flaw or about which patients knew nothing until too late.

one. of your treatment might contain the donation of 4050000 people. a lot of products in the u.k. came from america and one of the things we now know that the people giving those. people who maybe were in prison. and i encouraged to give that. to provide. this is a result that you were 8. years and you weren't. where you told that you were being.

because. the drugs don't move and the brutes and ankle supports have saved me a few times because sometimes you walk and you roll your own call and if i didn't have these on i would have very probably. drawn on girls. like other people fairly x. martin has problems with joints mainly his knees and elbows caused by internal bleeding. and was diagnosed within a full year about the age of 6 months old. growing goal with him earlier back then for a parent it was a nightmare children there always were in fall in over buying in themselves and i would have all kinds of internal bleeds and damage to my joints. burden was under constant medical care 1st at birmingham children's hospital and

have your age of 17 he was sent to an adult facility. i remember being in the white american and my name is called out now the doctor doesn't even introduce himself his 1st words were hello or c. or a child people i didn't understand the significance of what he was saying because i was a healthy teenager a my words to him were all well that's life. even goes on to say that your life for the next 2 years and then i said what do you mean by that. and he goes you got 2 years to live. that's when it hit me. so we rode back to birmingham and got a letter that says on it that i was tested in 1900. without my knowledge i was found to be positive but it also says that i found an old sample of

my blood from atlanta $93.00 and i was positive then. but i could have been working on why i could have been sleeping with somebody and it would have more to for me if i have infected a girl what gives them doctors the wrong time to play god brought up a risk or the people's laws why didn't they tell me. in 1981 i knew had previously unheard of disease was discovered in the united states acquired immune deficiency syndrome aids. in january 982 with the 1st hemophiliacs contracted aids in the us in more cases have been recorded by the end of the year 8 of which were terminal. despite this great britain continue to import american factories. are you proud of your all the new jump. up what if you call him.

ever a jury j.j. be sure. my dad lived with hemophilia. really did all one thing aim affiliates again is way the time it was kind of an odd thing the song people. say here with area near cartons easy. saws and swinging. wood around the shop the things. that stick let me go i was. crazy. a merry thankfully those videos because it's the evidence why memory doesn't have. its it was

a father to me that he raised me and was doing everything a father should. say he was there i was. in towards the late seventies he sees concentrates because that's where the doctors are saw him and everyone else see use. main $1803.00 so the 1st reported case of the british hemophiliac contracting the disease. appeared in the press claiming that factor 8 was a safe. in november of 84 he raised concerns about the products with he stopped and they told him this is just sensationalism it's fine you know don't worry they convinced him to carry on using fats concentrate and then it was only shortly after that the his 1st test came back as opposed to. things just very difficult strain on the relationship with my mom you know they'd

only got married and nothing their life went from being one of planning for the future to planning for the end. he took to new statements about one of the worst things being that feeling of sticking that. year with relation to. her charge in the early turks who christer people get very sick for you were. doubts that he was positive felt such fear never felt little it's not the fear of what he might suffer it's it's social it's everything it's children it's housing it's your careers everything is gone it was something to be ashamed of even though we did nothing wrong he did nothing wrong i had been

a prominent lawyer locally and then one dart i walked into a pub to play mama and the landlord just pointed out me and said you get out the pool team i've been playing with but i also don't they're not one of them tried to defend me ourselves sick. and i felt dead. this was a classic case of. well informed it. doesn't take away the fact that it made me feel a lot rubbish. my dad lost his job among got sidetracked her job they received hate mail phone calls

making fun of. the stigma is incredible it's this whole thing though if you had a jew you were gay or you were a drug user or some kind of what they sold to be an desirable person. by 9190 nights a he'd become verio. he had progressed to a it's only opportunistic infections using off way slowly going through a horrible death. and. by the end of my 3. news news that. jason evans founded the independent campaign group factor 8 its members of the immediate relatives of him affiliates who died because of contaminated blood products his organization provides them with legal help. i really only had one goal

when i got involved in campaigning on this subject i wanted it to tell on the official record what happened could and should have been avoided i think after that point maybe there's room for that as support for people counseling and compensation and all these other things but i think from apes. they want on the record that there is liability and then all. this is the poseidon adventure mixed with the titanic in one colossal sinking of the global economy right now we've got donald trump starring what the

ghost of paul newman on the bridge of the titanic watching as they engineer. lost souls failure of the global economy. we can see which it's perhaps most clearly documented dates them 10th of september 1976 so very soon up to you would be still saying it should go with them and we can see the words hepatitis from a stick with the existence of the risk of habits like to something you or your parents were aware of that. must feel. we have cash cow and that is dari alfonzo mongery has died. he's died. he's died on lost one of the page turners generation paid change dard or.

at 11 years of age richard went to trial lawyers college a special boarding school for children with disabilities. as an n.h.s. health center on the campus students could receive the medical care they needed and attend classes all in the same place. it's also the site of the greatest concentration of contaminated blood cases that the u.k. has ever seen. busy what it. is that you receive significant quantities of fats or a sort of prophylactic base. they were crazy about. aren't 2 real target joints and that was my left mate in the right. for our current system why they would give me consecutive doses day after day. great britain will be self-sufficient in blood products and will guarantee their purity. it was the government's promise in the 1970s.

when government came in that pledge and that aim went away and they found a way around the. importing this particular product. all these issues were very often in meetings of 1015 people but they were all held in secret no one was allowed to publish the minutes of the meetings. the main beneficiaries of that secrecy were pharmaceutical companies. these companies had a huge financial motivation to sow these problems today. the fact concentrate market is a 1000000000 dollar industry in order for me to say our product is safe for the next companies they needed a trial date that showed we've used this product and it's not infectious and in this country at least the doctor is. often as consultants to the pharmaceutical

home as there are numerous documents showing that doctors in oxford doctors in cardiff work keen to test facts or a concentrates free infectivity on their patients to all hemophilia sense direct as the initial production branches may have been tested for infectivity by injecting them into chimpanzees it is unlikely that the manufacturers will be able to guarantee this form of quality control for all future batches it is therefore very important find out why studies in human beings to what extent the infectivity of the various concentrates has been reduced. the reason they used humans instead of chimpanzees was one because chimpanzees were expensive and essentially patients were free when they don't know that experiment we tried to speak to the pharmaceutical companies that produced factory took the time over the last 50 years

they have changed names and ownership several times and none wanted to talk about the contaminated blood issue now. what we know now is that the trolls are also conducting tests regularly and keeping records of liver function tests which made you think ok so what are they actually looking for figuring in a safe product are they want monitoring how you live. or if you take a sales are you cd for care why would they be looking at racing. out of the 8. 9 hemophiliacs who went to train those college 72 died. and people are still dying. from liver related problems rushed to have a charge say. i actually feel guilty i'm still here i asked myself the

question why am i still alive when you know 70 percent of the him feel that boy use the rats college. i've had and i don't care and i'm always crushing me so why me i why am i saying i live by being allowed to live when so many have and. the official claim was that the new medicines were safe the most emphatic statement to that effect was from kenneth clark health secretary under margaret thatcher's government. i think someone that really has a lot to answer for as a minister is. the well known kenneth clark actually stood up for an argument and said there is no conclusive proof. is transmitted through blood products he

really needs to answer for putting out that type of misinformation and this was the reply we received from kenneth clocks office chris the clock has chosen to decline it's request and from the u.k. department of health the infected blood inquiry is a cabinet of its leaders and therefore they will be the ones best placed on see or questions beyond that initial acknowledgement the cabinet office has not responded to our request. and all we could find on the official u.k. national health service website was a report mentioning that victims are entitled to apply for compensation. 2019 and for the 1st time the u.k. government agreed to hear what the victims had to say a public inquiry was opened in london and jason evans group factory's is taking part in it is finally happening it's been. a long road and this is

a this train journey is one that i say here countless times over the last 34 years . even before jason was born his father was aware of the deadly disease. in spite of the risk of causing on the contamination his baby was born. after i think about how would i have dealt with what my dad went next year i'll be the same age my dad was when he died. i think about if i used to die i did next year at that age that would have been really a very short life. that weighs heavily on my mind.

oh in 1803 tina and. yes. shall we say. a word i knew pretty soon after and she went to see her doctor. where we were advised really in no uncertain terms not. to look at. it was all in those few months so mixed together and at the time we were still reeling from the shock and the implications of dealing with the times now sis i could have been positive in which case what would we you know. being an approach child at that time to be in often if you come into the world we didn't know how long we have all the child could have been positive as well as me in which case was it morally right to give birth to a child that i suffered terribly i couldn't walk away from

a man who are supposed to love. just when he needed me most and once we found out that i was ok. afterwards. he. realized that if i was going to be a mother it wouldn't be with richard and i just say with richard he said you're a perfect stream really loving and supportive wife yes she's shifting journey. as it. assists a great sadness to you base this feel that you have had children. a problem if there. really. anything you would.

have to say at the time it seemed easy i didn't feel as if we had any choice. only lazy thing. but hey. martin baird was also thinking of starting a family his girlfriend was a nurse at the hospital where he received his treatment. i've got the dial m. earth hemophilia os and not all of the don lemon are of a child of a not just infecting her. possibly possibly on to children as well so took the decision after about a year to split tilt so that i would feel a she could go off and have a family of our on and thankfully she did and we're still friends on facebook you know and she seems happy which is good. missionary very

apt as free base and not such a. very loyal dogs rottweilers a. very protective as wild. animals. one of the greatest comfort she can ever offer. because you can have the lousiest day in the world when you walk in that house and the dogs are pleased to see you. dogs know when you're in need and i when you're in trouble. it's soothing. the. 2 attempts were made over 40 years to investigate the causes of

this medical disaster in the u.k. but so far no one has been held accountable. for the current inquiries goal is to gather evidence the final decision about how to proceed after that will wrist with the government. i have no doubt that what happened was criminal i think the real question is to walk degree was a criminal i mean nothing a bad minimum we're talking about some form of criminal negligence and perhaps corporate manslaughter. perhaps as high as mud and i think the inquiry can help direct in some way where those lines made. their criminal prosecutions have been brought in other countries and they have been successful particularly in france whether they will be brought in this country i suspect not the reason they won't bring them though the crown prosecution service won't be directed to bring those

prosecutions it's because it's widely accepted that they would be successful and the only way they can avoid a successful prosecution is to avoid bringing it up. the public inquiry is expected to continue for at least 2 to 3 years too late for the victims who have already died and to long for those still fighting for their lives every doing morning. first witnesses. it was so frightening. i was told about a year to live it was a hard time is so frightfully experience it wasn't a life. really treasure exams anymore because we would be dead in a few years so we will actually. i do feel conduit. come out. came out meals to any. tone swamps it down the house hard enough

is no way should have to do it we just wanted to be with them. and i believe now is the time to do is to see. a recognition of. a meaningful recompense for the largest. storm from those.

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