Support after infected blood products

If you or your child received blood, plasma, cryoprecipitate or clotting factor and you are worried about hepatitis or HIV, you deserve a test and an explanation. Worry alone is not a diagnosis. NHS will help you find the conversation. We cannot see your result on this website.

What to do

• Go to your treatment centre or a hospital that can test for HIV and for hepatitis B and C. Take old discharge papers if you have them.
• Ask which product was given, in which year, and whether the batch was recorded. Write down the answer.
• If a test is positive, stay with the clinician for treatment. Hepatitis and HIV both have care pathways in Nepal. Do not buy medicine from an advertisement.
• Tell NHS what support you need: a referral, a chapter contact, or someone to come with you to a meeting. Call 01-5172729 or email nepalhemo@gmail.com.

The UK inquiry recommended compensation for people infected and affected in that country’s system. Those schemes do not automatically cover treatment given in Nepal. If a lawyer or a stranger promises a UK payment for a Nepali hospital record, treat that as a warning and talk to NHS before you sign anything or pay a fee.

Families who were not infected still live with the fear. That belongs in the community too. You can come to a meeting, join as a member, and ask for information without having a positive test.

Email is not confidential in the way a clinic record is. Do not send photographs of a full medical file, an ID card, or a child’s photo. Say that you want a call, and the office will arrange a safer conversation.