National Health Service in the 19705, 80s and 905. Many have since died, others unknowingly passed infections on to their partners, who then died. Victims and their families have spent decades fighting for compensation. Chloe hayward explains. It is known as the biggest Treatment Disaster in nhs history, and so far we know 3000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected Blood Products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories the people with rare genetic Blood Clotting Disorders such as The Haemophiliacs and people who needed Blood Transfusions after surgery, for example. Lets start with this first group, The Haemophiliacs. People with Blood Clotting Disorders need a special protein called factor viii or factor ix injected which helps their blood clot. But by the 19705, the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these Blood Products, and so they started to import from america. But because america pays fo