“We have been gaslit for generations,” was the reaction of Andy Evans, the chair of the campaign group Tainted Blood, in response to the final report on the contaminated blood scandal.
To many who were infected, or whose parents, children, partners or other loved ones were, the report merely confirms what they already knew. They have long maintained – often in the face of stubborn denial from doctors and ministers – that this was a preventable tragedy, compounded by persistent attempts to evade accountability.
