Ruling camp to craft bill to aid all hepatitis C sufferers: Fuku

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks to journalists at his office on Dec. 23. He said that the ruling coalition parties will craft legislation to aid all hepatitis C sufferers who contracted the disease through tainted blood products. ''As a result of consultations with the Liberal Democratic Party, we have decided to devise a lawmaker-initiated bill to aid all the sufferers uniformly,'' Fukuda said. (Kyodo)

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