More people who lost loved ones during the "biggest treatment disaster in the NHS" should be entitled to compensation, the chairman of the Infected Blood Inquiry has said.It has been estimated that thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis by contaminated blood between 1970 and 1991.

More people who lost loved ones during the "biggest treatment disaster in the NHS" should be entitled to compensation, the chairman of the Infected Blood Inquiry has said.It has been estimated that thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis by contaminated blood between 1970 and 1991.