Woman whose Lancashire father died of Aids from infected blood urges Government apology
A university worker whose Lancashire-born father died from Aids after he was given infected blood has called on the Government to issue a public apology for its role in the contaminated blood scandal.
“Because I think the truth is very important. I do think it’s important it gets publicly acknowledged so that future medics, future politicians, can learn about it in the history and know the full story and not make the same mistakes. Ms MacRae, 43, works as a business and operations manager at Cambridge University’s department of clinical biochemistry at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Reflecting on the inquiry, ordered by then-prime minister Theresa May in 2017, she said: “It’s been a weird relief, relief in the sense that you hear so many stories that are so similar to your own, so it’s kind of reassuring that others understand what you’ve been through.
She said she feels “cheated” out of being a mother, adding: “Had that one consultant not said that I might have been lucky enough to have children with my ex-husband. I hadn’t realised the option was available to me until I met others like me who had gone on to have children despite what they had been told.”
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