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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

UK: Lesley Hughes now demanding apology for blood transfusion scandal blighting thousands of patients

At risk: Lesley Hughes who found out just last year she contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion. 

It was the blood that was supposed to give her life.

However, the 61-year-old says that blood has given her a death sentence after discovering just last year by chance that it infected her with the deadly virus hepatitis C. 

Last week the couple from the New Forest travelled to London where the issue was debated in parliament with MPs calling for a long-awaited national public apology and final settlement ahead of the results of a public inquiry into the scandal being published in March.

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