How many people are (a) known to be suffering from hepatitis C and officially recorded as such and (b) estimated to be suffering from hepat…

Answered Asked by Mary Scanlon Con Lodged 18 Jan 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are (a) known to be suffering from hepatitis C and officially recorded as such and (b) estimated to be suffering from hepatitis C but not officially recorded as such.

The answer

Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 Feb 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

Figures published by the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH) confirm that to end June 2000, there were 10,929 laboratory confirmed cases of hepatitis C in Scotland. The Scottish Needs Assessment Programme Report, published in August 2000, estimated that 35,000 people in Scotland are infected with the hepatitis C virus.Figures showing confirmed cases of hepatitis C infection to June 2001 are to be published by SCIEH next month.

In the Official Report

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