Victims of Tainted Blood May Not Live to See Report

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Victims of Tainted Blood May Not Live to See Report

Toronto Globe and Mail (03/06/96) P. A3
Picard, Andre

Abstract: Justice Horace Krever, the judge leading the inquiry into Canada's tainted blood incident, says the commission's report may be delayed by months, possibly years. More than 1,200 hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients were infected with HIV from contaminated blood and blood products between 1980 and 1985. Krever made this prediction in a letter to the Clerk of the Privy Council following a government lawyer's announcement that the lawsuit being brought by the federal government, provinces, the Canadian Red Cross, and pharmaceutical companies would not interfere with the completion of the inquiry. The suit is an attempt to keep Krever from making any findings of wrongdoing, and contends that such findings could be used in civil or criminal cases against them. The inquiry has compiled more than 300 potential findings of misconduct, which consumer advocates say are important to the case and do not imply any legal liability. Such groups say delaying the report, which had a deadline of Sept. 30, 1996, hurts the public's faith in the blood system.

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