Australian tainted blood victims are calling for a royal commission in the wake of damning findings from a UK inquiry.
As a Sydney schoolboy in the 1980s, Charles MacKenzie was given donated blood as part of his treatment for a rare blood disorder.
In an apology to victims, British PM Rishi Sunak said the inquiry's final report, released on Monday, "should shake our nation to its core". He said he was moved to speak out about what happened to him because it felt like "this is our last chance"."So if it meant me sacrificing my rights and privacy, then I was happy to do this for Australia."
"Rather than immediately contacting all of that man's previous recipients of his tainted blood, including me, they didn't. They didn't contact anybody," MacKenzie said. "They promised dental care, because so many people with HIV and hep C have bad teeth. Well, of course, that wasn't provided. I myself had to do a GoFundMe to get a tooth removed."
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