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Daniel Keane

Infected blood victim from Hackney told daughter to 'keep fighting for justice' the day he died

A London woman who says her father contracted Hepatitis C after a blood transfusion has called for the Government to “take responsibility” for the scandal.

Reverend Clifford Samuels, from Hackney, is thought to have caught the disease during an operation to remove a stomach ulcer at the Prince of Wales hospital in Tottenham in the 1970s. He died aged 75 in 2019 after suffering from the virus unknowingly for decades.

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