BBC News : The Archer Inquiry - February 2009 with Sue Threakall (Houses of Parliament)

BBC News - 23rd February 2009 - Houses of Parliament

Infectiion of Haemophiliacs was 'Wholly avoidable'

Sue Threakall, whose husband contracted HIV after he was given contaminated blood, tells the BBC's Sophie Hutchinson what she makes of Lord Archer of Sandwell's report.

The supply of contaminated NHS blood products to haemophiliacs in the 1970s and 1980s was "wholly avoidable", an independent public inquiry has heard.

Sue Threakall, from north Devon, whose haemophiliac husband Bob died in February 1991, aged 47 after contracting HIV, said: "This terrible tragedy should never have happened in the first place, it was wholly avoidable."

She said her husband had said he did not know what was in factor VIII and was concerned about taking it. "Warnings were ignored, lessons were NOT learned and our community was lied to by the people it should have trusted most," said Mrs Threakall.

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