'They Tried to Cover It Up' — Father's Fury After Son Faces Six Months of HIV Tests Following Royal Gwent Hospital Sterilisation Failure

'They Tried to Cover It Up' — Father's Fury After Son Faces Six Months of HIV Tests Following Royal Gwent Hospital Sterilisation Failure

Lee Williams found out his 15-year-old son might be facing months of HIV and hepatitis testing not from the hospital that treated him, but from a stranger dressed in medical scrubs who knocked on their front door. The visitor was a whistleblower, and the letter they delivered would force a Welsh NHS health board to confront a sterilisation failure it had known about for nearly three weeks. Ieuan Williams, who had braces fitted at the Royal Gwent…