Call for inquiry into suppliers of infected blood products

THE Lindsay Report has shown that there were serious failures on the part of State agencies to the haemophilia community, the Irish Haemophilia Society said yesterday.

These failures have had tragic consequences and resulted in death and misery for haemophiliacs, IHS chairman Brian O’Mahony said.

The IHS says a full inquiry is needed into the role of pharmaceutical companies into the infection of haemophilia suffers with HIV and Hepatitis C through contaminated blood products.