Report notes 'Catalogue of failures' in UK contaminated blood scandal
A "catalogue of failures" by government officials and doctors in Britain, most of them avoidable mistakes, has led to blood contamination that has killed around 3,000 people and infected more than 30,000 over two decades, according to a long-awaited report released Monday.The report is the product of a six-year investigation ordered by the British government in 2017 after decades of pressure from victims and their families, and could pave the way for large compensation payments.Independent report puts spotlight on Britain's state-run National Health Service, identifying "systemic, collective and individual failures" by British authorities to manage infections of tens of thousands of people caused by transfusions of contaminated blood or blood products contaminated between the 70s and 9...