article_snippet: The families of thousands of patients given contaminated blood by NHS have condemned an inquiry into the scandal as a whitewash and a waste of time.
article_snippet: In January, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood criticised the help provided to the thousands infected by contaminated blood during the 1970s and 80s.
article_snippet: A quarter of a century ago, the Daily Mail campaigned to highlight the plight of haemophiliacs infected with contaminated blood products as part of contaminated blood products NHS treatment.
article_snippet: The families of thousands of patients given contaminated blood by NHS NHS have condemned an inquiry into a huge public health scandal as a whitewash and a waste of time .
article_snippet: the Daily Mail's coverage included telling the story of Allen White, then 36, a haemophiliac who contracted Aids through a blood clotting agent, under the headline: 'A blindness to moral justice has abandoned this dying man.
article_snippet: The article asked: 'Why doesn't the Government do the honourable thing about what the Haemophilia Society describes as 'the biggest tragedy in NHS history'?'
article_snippet: The Mail's coverage included telling the story of Allen White, then 36, a haemophiliac who contracted Aids through a blood clotting agent .
article_snippet: Mark Ward, of Peacehaven, East Sussex, who contracted hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood he received as a child, said yesterday he had been treated as nothing more than a 'lump of meat to be experimented on'.
article_snippet: he told the BBC that the treatment was 'so dirty and filthy, and the places the treatment was being sourced... anything could have been in that blood', adding: 'the BBC were used as objects of research.'