Name to deal with Covid jab victims in identical method as these hit by contaminated blood

MPs are demanding motion to cease victims of Covid vaccines being sidelined and handled as “collateral damage” by the Government.

They need these whose well being has been badly hit to be handled with the “same concern” as these impacted by contaminated blood.

All-Party Parliamentary Group chair Sir Christopher Chope stated Covid-19 vaccine victims had “suffered through no fault of their own” after taking a jab in good religion.

Christchurch MP Sir Christopher added: “The Government should be helping and sympathising with those who have done the right thing by being vaccinated against Covid-19 but who have suffered as a result.

“Instead, it is ignoring victims and treating them as collateral damage. It is intolerable that victims feel gaslighted and shameful that they are being deprived of basic care.”

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The 44-year-old Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme has additionally come below fireplace. Maria Caulfield, the well being minister who has accountability for vaccines, shall be requested to reform it on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Damage on June 5.

Individuals and households badly injured or bereaved by a vaccine are supplied as much as £120,000 tax-free.

But The Express instructed in March how attorneys, households and campaigners blasted the VDPS as “unfit for purpose” because of prolonged delays and an “antiquated and unfair” 60 % incapacity threshold.

We launched Justice for Jab Victims in response.

As of April 24, 4,914 VDPS claims had been acquired by the NHS Business Service Authority with 78 people awarded fee. Some 1,404 have been refused a payout.

Ms Caulfield shall be requested to “remove many of the VDPS eligibility restrictions for Covid-19 vaccine victims” and lift the £120,000 fee. Other requests embrace permitting claimants to “have a physical examination”.

Clinics for these with Long Covid are additionally known as for.

Covid vaccines have saved greater than 120,000 lives within the UK. Yet a number of thousand have had opposed reactions.

Dozens of sufferers and households are taking authorized motion in opposition to AstraZeneca over catastrophic accidents because of blood clotting.

But a whole bunch, probably hundreds, who can’t pursue such litigation see VDPS as a ­lifeline. However, it’s feared many have been deterred from making claims.

A survey for this paper discovered 283 members of the vaccine-injury assist group UK CV Family haven’t made an utility as they don’t consider they may meet the 60 % incapacity threshold or should not have the vitality to make a declare.

Group founder Charlet Crichton instructed the Daily Express: “They have seen others get rejected and they mentally can’t face being declined.

“Rejection is gaslighting to lots of people. It hits them deeply because they feel like they’re not acknowledged.” Mum Jennifer Gathercole, 38, fears she is not going to make the 60 % threshold though her Covid jab has turned her life into “mental torture”.

She developed useful neurological dysfunction, a situation the place the mind doesn’t ship or obtain messages correctly, and non-epileptic assault dysfunction after her second AstraZeneca vaccine on June 4, 2021.

A letter from Jennifer’s marketing consultant to her GP, seen by the Express, confirms her situations have been “triggered by Covid vaccination”. 

She now suffers as much as six seizures a day, together with head stress, tremors and persistent ache. She has additionally gone blind in a single eye and has been identified with paroxysmal tachycardia, an irregular coronary heart rhythm.

Some days she will discover it laborious to stroll, discuss or eat. Her daughter Megan, 17, helps take care of Jennifer.

More than 500 claims from greater than 12 months in the past are nonetheless ready for the end result of their utility. Some have even waited two years.

The NHSBSA says it has elevated its workforce to over 80.

Father-of-four Simon Clark, who developed debilitating Guillain-Barre syndrome after his AstraZeneca jab in March 2021, has waited for the end result of his VDPS utility for 2 years. He stated: “It’s ridiculous.”

Solicitor Sarah Moore says the UK ought to look to nations resembling Norway the place profitable claims solely require proof of 5 % incapacity.

Ms Crichton worries lack of assist may very well be fuelling the rise in vaccine hesitancy, saying: “The Government needs to prove they can look after people who have had adverse reactions and bring it more out into the open.”