Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have expressed serious frustrations during an inquiry hearing, citing delays and flaws in the compensation scheme that leave many inadequately supported. Despite 30,000 affected individuals, only 106 have seen payments from the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA). Issues emerged around overly restrictive qualifying criteria, insufficient compensation tariffs, and the convoluted claims process. Witnesses shared profound emotional distress, describing feeling gaslit by the government while waiting for justice against a backdrop of untimely deaths, highlighting the urgent need for a corrective approach to their situation.
We feel gaslit, marginalised and abused by successive governments that purport to care [but] evidently do not, she told Wednesday's hearing. We're suffering from sustained trauma.
It's almost like you're waiting for your lottery ticket to come up. And when it doesn't come up each month, you go down and you have to drag yourself up.
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