'I wake up and every day I reflect on what could have been'
Christopher Martin once had dreams of becoming a flight attendant, travelling the world and opening his own hotel.At just 12-months-old, Christopher was unknowingly infected with hepatitis C in a scandal that shocked the nation.Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people with haemophilia were infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses.
“I wake up and every day I reflect on what could have been,” he told the Manchester Evening News. “Sometimes, I cry.“Some days are good days and some are bad days. My days are filled with trying to keep myself occupied but I have a lot of brain fog and my concentration levels have never been the same since the treatment.
Christopher was among 4,689 British haemophiliacs treated with contaminated blood products, leading to infections such as hepatitis C and HIV. Since the blood scandal, more than 3,000 people have died and of the 1,243 people infected with HIV, less than 250 are still alive. In 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that a statutory public inquiry would be held into the contaminated blood scandal.Since the inquiry was announced, The Haemophilia Society estimate that more than 500 people infected and affected by the scandal have died – with more expected to lose their lives before the inquiry reaches its conclusions in autumn 2023.
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