HAEMOPHILIA AND HEPATITIS C

Early day motion 1553, tabled 14 July 1998 by Roger Godsiff (Labour). Signed by 72 members.

That this House calls on the Government to acknowledge that over 4,800 people with Haemophilia have been infected with the hepatitis C virus as a result of National Health Service treatment with contaminated blood products, to recognise that over 90 people with haemophilia are now understood to have died from liver disease contracted as a result and to give similar financial assistance to haemophiliacs infected with HCV who currently receive no additional help as is given to those infected in the same way with HIV; and calls on the Government to meet its unequivocal moral responsibility to help sufferers of hepatitis C.

Signatures by party: Labour 43, Liberal Democrat 15, UUP 6, Conservative 3, Labour/Co-operative 2, Scottish National Party 2, DUP 1.