DEADLY NHS BLUNDERS - THEN AND NOW

THEN:

Few would disagree with the verdict of Lord Winston that the use of contaminated blood in transfusions and blood products was "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS".

Thousands of people in the UK, including an estimated 4000 in Scotland, were given contaminated blood in the 1970s and 1980s.

As a result, many, including more than 2000 haemophiliacs in the UK, have since died from either hepatitis C or HIV, and there is a fear that others remain undiagnosed.

Campaigners for a public inquiry into what went wrong have argued for many years that if this scale of carnage had occurred in an accident, there would have been a full-scale public inquiry long ago.

That did not happen because this was a systemic failure which took place more slowly in a series of personal tragedies to individuals.

NOW; (THE PULSE/UK):

An inquest jury's returned a verdict of unlawful killing after hearing how a new mother died because of an NHS hospital blunder.

An anaesthetic meant for epidural use in the spine was injected through a drip into the hand of Mayra Cabrera.

The jury said gross negligence by Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust, had led to the death.

• TAX-PAYER FINANCED, SOCIALIZED/UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE SUCKS COMPARED TO PRIVATE CARE.
• IF IT DOESN'T WORK THERE, THEN WE SHOULDN'T DO IT HERE.
• YET THAT'S WHAT THE DEMS WANT.

DON'T BE FOOLED.