United Kingdom tainted blood scandal
It is investigating how thousands became infected with HIV and hepatitis C from NHS blood.
Their lives were forever changed by killer viruses in contaminated blood.
Legal counsel says ex-Secretaries of State for Health will be compelled to attend historic proceedings.
In the 1970’s a series of catastrophic events led to 3,891 people in the UK, mostly haemophiliacs, becoming infected with the HIV or hepatitis C viruses, or both. Decades later, the contaminated blood scandal remains relatively unknown outside the lives torn apart by it.