Hundreds of victims living with undetected hepatitis C, BBC finds

Key Facts

• Image caption, Jane Fitzgerald was given one unit of blood after surgery in the 70s and died in 2015 - her son Ronan is angry that she was not traced and warned About 1,750 people in the UK are living with an undiagnosed hepatitis C infection after being given a transfusion with contaminated blood, according to BBC analysis.
• The infected blood scandal is one of the biggest treatment disasters in NHS history - 3,000 people who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products have died.?
• They were noted on her medical records, but at no stage was she contacted by her GP or anyone in the NHS about the fact she might have been exposed to hepatitis.
• She wasn't tested for Hep C. Maureen passed away in February, five months after she was diagnosed - and 47 years after she had the blood transfusion that infected her.

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