Haemophilia And Hepatitis C

EDM number 4 in 1996-97, proposed by Alfred Morris on 23/10/1996.

That this House calls on the Government to acknowledge that over 3,000 people with haemophilia have been infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) as a result of NHS treatment with contaminated blood products, to recognise that over 60 people with haemophilia are now understood to have died from liver disease contracted as a result, and to consider giving similar financial assistance to those infected with HCV, who currently receive no additional help, as for those infected in the same way with HIV who have been compensated by the Government.

This motion has been signed by a total of 269 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.