You know the scandal of bad blood that killed dozens of students in a school in Britain

Despite the passage of more than 40 years, the British authorities are still continuing investigations today, about the worst health disaster in its history and known as the bad blood case, which continues to claim more victims' lives.

Dozens of families of victims of the largest medical catastrophe that shook the United Kingdom during the seventies and eighties of the last century are struggling to obtain an independent investigation, reveal the truth and hold those involved in the so-called bad blood case to account.

Although the British authorities have actually responded to this demand in recent years, and decided to open an investigation into the matter, many of the circumstances of the case are still obscured.

The latest chapter in this medical scandal was the victims' families filing a lawsuit against the Hampshire Boarding School, accusing them of failing to care for students in what was known as the tainted blood case.

What is the story of the "bad blood" scandal?

With the spread of hemophilia, the National Health Service in Britain, the NHS, between 1974 and 1987, offered about 120 children to receive treatment at Lord Mayor Trellor College, a special school for children with physical disabilities located in the county of Hampshire, southern England.

The treatment, which was supervised by a specialized medical staff at the time, was to inject the patients with a drug that was made from human blood plasma, imported at that time from the United States of America.

And no one expected at the time that what the students were injected with, is in fact blood contaminated with the acquired immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS and hepatitis C, which immediately killed about 72 of them and left 23 students alive. To this day, they continue their struggle to obtain justice for themselves and their colleagues who perished unjustly in this case.

The catastrophe did not stop at the borders of the British School only, the drug was also used on a large scale throughout the United Kingdom, and many official sources suggested that the number of injured in what was known as the bad blood scandal, has approached the limits of 30 thousand injured, of whom nearly 3000 have died so far. .

The disaster shook the British street, and many wondered at the time about the truth of this treatment, which claimed the lives of many of them, and is still claiming more lives. It was later revealed that the British authorities were, in fact, unable to achieve self-sufficiency in human blood plasma to manufacture treatment for the hemophilia epidemic that had spread to them, so they were forced to import large quantities of it from the United States.

In fact, the imported quantities consisted of plasma extracted from prisoners and drug users. It was later found that the blood was corrupt and contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C.

The medical error was not limited to this point. The British authorities also admitted after that their failure to examine the batches of plasma, which were spoiled quantities injected to a large number of people with the utmost recklessness, and thus became the largest medical disaster in the history of the National Health Service in Britain.

Britain opens an investigation into the case

Although the step is late, the opening of an investigation into the scandal of bad blood remains for many victims and their families, a demand that they have struggled to achieve for decades, to reveal the truth and hold accountable all those responsible for the unjust deaths of hundreds of people, and the continuation of hundreds of others to suffer awaiting the same fate. .

The investigation into the case was opened for the first time in 2018, following human rights pressures exerted on the British authorities, following the death of nearly 2,400 people due to the contaminated blood drug.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said at the time that the decision to investigate came after at least 2,400 people died over two decades and thousands more affected, in an attempt to determine the causes of the horrific harm inflicted on the victims because they deserve answers in a horrific tragedy that never could have happened. ', as she described it.

Hearings of victims and witnesses in the case were actually launched, and many horrific facts were revealed, which in turn blew up many questions indicating the possibility of some officials in the British authorities manipulating the facts and withholding information regarding this case.

Recently, several student survivors and families of the deceased victims filed a lawsuit against the Hampshire boarding school, where they were injected with contaminated blood, for failing to protect and care for the children who were under its responsibility.