A WARRINGTON victim of the ‘worst disaster in the history of the NHS’ hasn’t given up his fight for answers.

Grappenhall resident Mike Kenwright was one of thousands of haemophiliacs infected with Hepatitis C from bad blood transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s.

In March he celebrated a minor victory as a long-awaited public inquiry said the infections were ‘a tragedy’, and recommended that the thousands of victims be compensated through the benefits system, with access to free health care and extra money for those infected with multiple diseases.

For him and thousands of other patients infected with diseases from the blood, the inquiry was the first step in the right direction.

But Mike feels the campaign has stalled, as the Government has yet to respond to Lord Archer’s inquiry.

He has written to health minister Alan Johnson requesting a meeting to discuss the Government’s standpoint, but was told Mr Johnson was unable to meet him.

He has been repeatedly told that the Government is still considering the report and will respond in due course.

Since the publication of the report three of Mr Kenwright’s friends, who had been infected, have died and one needed an emergency liver transplant.

Almost 5,000 patients were infected with hepatitis C and 1,200 with HIV when the Government bought in blood products from America.

Much of this blood came from prisoners and drug users who were paid for their donations. It’s clotting agent was used to treat haemophilia.

Some 4,000 people have now been told they are also at risk of having caught variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of BSE, from the blood.