Infected blood scandal

THIS scandal has exposed something about Westminster politicians and Whitehall mandarins the public suspected for generations, namely that they are happy to lie blatantly to avoid embarrassment and loss of public trust.

The successive prime ministers, health secretaries, senior civil servants and NHS executives involved should all be held to account and, if necessary, investigated by the police.

PETEr ricKaBy, Selby, N. yorks. aNy doctors, government officials or MPs who obfuscated or misled the country in this scandal should have their awards and honours revoked. The families affected deserve retribution as well as compensation.

STEvE TuffiN, Burgess Hill, W. Sussex.

HOW could tainted blood imported from the u.S. never have been screened for infections? I received blood transfusions in Glasgow in the 1970s but I have been told I have been tested and I am clear. I hope I am being told the truth.

TESH SHirrON, aberdeen.

I aM pretty cross that all those pints of rhesus-negative blood I gave in the uK may have been mixed with the contaminated blood from the u.S. SaraH ivaTTS, Mevagissey, cornwall.

IN 1990 I gave birth after an emergency Caesarean. My loss of blood caused a huge argument between the nurse who wanted a transfusion and a doctor who didn’t trust the blood.

Thank you, doctor, for eliminating me from the current victims.

HELEN GriffiTHS, Hook, Hants.

WHaT responsibility does america bear for supplying the NHS with a contaminated product?

BiLL GrOvEr, Poole, Dorset.

THOuSaNDS were infected by blood that the NHS imported.

Question 1: Why did it need to import blood? Question 2: are yOu a blood donor?

DON BaBBaGE, rayleigh, Essex.