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Two mothers spoke out about how the infected blood scandal has devastated their lives.
For decades Nicola Leahy and Michelle Tolley battled with chronic illness and crippling fatigue. Neither knew they had been infected with hepatitis C through blood transfusions.
They are among up to 30,000 people who contracted the same illness and/or HIV via contaminated blood and blood products in the NHS treatment disaster. They want to encourage other victims to come forward – fearing they may be too ashamed to speak out or have not been diagnosed.
Their call comes as the Infected Blood Inquiry this week begins to examine how thousands who required blood after childbirth, miscarriage or accidents were let down by NHS transfusion services.
Nicola Leahy, 69, from Lancashire, spent much of her career as an NHS patient care chief before she was forced into early retirement through illnes
Mrs Leahy is likely to have been infected via blood transfusions during the troubled birth of her third child in 1980 at Billinge Hospital in Wigan
Mrs Leahy, 69, from Lancashire, spent much of
