Mortgage and life assurance scheme launched
Positive Action, which represents women with state-acquired hepatitis C and or HIV, said the scheme was “long awaited” as to date, their members could not enter the housing market because of their medical condition. Travel insurance will also be provided.
Launching the scheme, Minister for Health Mary Harney said: “The infection of people with contaminated blood products was catastrophic. This new scheme is an important measure to provide further support to them. Since 1997, it has been clear that the inability of these people to buy life assurance or mortgage protection policies added further problems to the damage they had already suffered.”
