A HAEMOPHILIAC from Rubery refusing to take an unsafe treatment has been denied an alternative by health bosses who he claims are "a law unto themselves".
Marc Payton, from Kineton Road, is appealing against the decision which leaves him choosing between medication that has exposed him to three life-threatening diseases or enduring the bleeding caused by his condition.
In 1985, infected blood products used in his blood clotting treatment gave him HIV and Hepatitis C.
This year he was told blood products he received had come from someone who died from Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, the human form of mad cow disease.
Mr Payton has endured haemorrhaging in his joints for three months because he will not take the clotting agent he claims is unsafe.
He is campaigning for a synthetic treatment which does not use human blood.
Mr Payton criticised the decision-makers at Birmingham Health Authority.
The 39-year-old added: "They're a law unto themselves.
"They don't know anything about what's wrong with me, they're just pen-pushers."
A health authority spokeswoman said it was following an established process which included a right to appeal.
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