Canada Day 2010 is a bittersweet occasion for victims of the tainted blood tragedy: The final deadline to apply for compensation is midnight Wednesday and, despite some $2.7-billion invested in making amends, there are growing fears the money is running out.
Many thousand more, perhaps as many as 30,000, were infected with hepatitis C. And so 20 years ago today, the Privy Council issued an order calling for the creation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada — better known as the Krever Inquiry. In the wake of the report, the Red Cross was stripped of its control over the blood program, and a new federal agency, Canadian Blood Services, was established to operate at arms length from the government (except in Quebec, where Hema-Héma quebec québec). These compensation programs allowed people to live their lives with some dignity, said David Page, executive director of the Canadian Hemophilia Society. But I don't think we can ever talk about lives and dollars in the same breath. We can never adequately compensate for tainted blood.. Money cannot be shifted around without an actuarial analysis and the approval of the courts. I believe this is going to get fixed; everybody will be compensated, Mr. Roy said. The tainted blood tragedy is Canada's worst-ever public-health disaster. About 2,000 hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients contracted HIV/AIDS, and another 20,000 recipients of blood and blood products contracted hepatitis C Canada Day 2010 is a bittersweet occasion for victims of the tainted blood tragedy: The final deadline to apply for compensation is midnight Wednesday and, despite some $2.7-billion invested in making amends, there are growing fears the money is running out. Money cannot be shifted around without an actuarial analysis and the approval of the courts. I believe this is going to get fixed; everybody will be compensated, Mr. Roy said. The tainted blood tragedy is Canada's worst-ever public-health disaster. About 2,000 hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients contracted HIV/AIDS, and another 20,000 recipients of blood and blood products contracted hepatitis C The first compensation program, created in 1989, was markedly different: It assumed that everyone who contracted HIV/AIDS from tainted blood would be dead within four years. They were given a lump-sum payment of $120,000, a program that Ottawa announced on Christmas Eve to ensure it would get no media attention. Money cannot be shifted around without an actuarial analysis and the approval of the courts. I believe this is going to get fixed; everybody will be compensated, Mr. Roy said. The tainted blood tragedy is Canada's worst-ever public-health disaster. About 2,000 hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients contracted HIV/AIDS, and another 20,000 recipients of blood and blood products contracted hepatitis C Michael Orsini: Thalidomide compensation is the tainted blood scandal all over again. Michael Orsini More from Michael Orsini. Published on: November 26, 2014 | Last Updated: November 26, 2014 11:43 AM EDT. Health Minister Rona Ambrose responds to a question in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Thalidomide survivors deserve support to live their lives in the most fulfilling way possible. Michael Orsini is Director of the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His Ph.D. thesis examined Canada’s tainted blood scandal. Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press. Published Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:55PM EDT. Last Updated Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:34PM EDT. TORONTO -- Victims of the tainted blood scandal and their families are urging the Ontario and federal governments to stop proposed blood-plasma clinics from operating in the province. It is up to the province to decide whether or not payment for plasma can happen, said spokesman Steve Outhouse. Health Canada consulted with stakeholders, including the families of tainted blood victims, he said. A summary of those consultations will be posted for the public, who will be able to submit comments. In July 2006, the Canadian government announced a compensation package of about 1 billion Canadian dollars for all those infected with Hepatitis C from the tainted blood, expanding a previous program that excluded thousands of people. About 1.2 billion Canadian dollars already had been paid to those infected between 1986 and 1990. Another settlement grants 30,000 Canadian dollars per year to patients who were infected with HIV by the tainted blood products. Compensation programs for individuals with HIV or Hepatitis C have been set up over the past few years by the federal government, the provinces and the territories, as well as by the Red Cross, to financially compensate victims of the tainted blood scandal. The Pre-1986/Post-1990 Hepatitis C Settlement Agreement is for the benefit of people infected with Hepatitis C through the blood system in Canada prior to January 1, 1986 or between July 2, 1990, and September 28, 1998, and certain members of their families.
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