Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to pay 75 million dollars compensation over a 1996 drug trial that caused the death of 11 children in northern Nigeria, a source close to negotiations said Friday.
“Pfizer has agreed to pay the sum of 75 million dollars in compensation and the Kano state government has agreed to the offer,” said the source, who did not want to be identified.
The source said a separate 6.5-billion-dollar suit lodged against the US drug firm by the Nigerian federal government will be dropped under the terms of the settlement.
The Kano high court hearing the case has fixed May 25 for both the prosecution and defence lawyers to submit a detailed report on the out-of-court-settlement.
Kano state filed civil and criminal suits against Pfizer demanding 2.75 billion dollars in compensation, as well as the prosecution of staff, for what it said was an illegal test of the meningitis drug Trovan on 200 children in the state capital Kano.
The trial was carried out during a triple epidemic of measles, cholera and meningitis in which more than 12,000 people died.
Eleven children died after taking Trovan, which is also alleged to have caused deformities such as blindness, deafness, brain damage and paralysis in 189 others. Continue Reading….
When it comes to the continent of Africa these pharmaceutical companies, and scientists who visited Africa posing as ‘medical professionals’ have a lot to answer for.
I say no more….
Rest In Peace to all those who died.
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They shouldn’t have settled!! Prosecute those demons!!! And who is getting that money????????
Africa is a ‘dark’ continent. Anyone from outside can take anything, there’s always a catch for it. That money that is going to be paid is nothing. They did their experiment and achieved their goal. The poverty and desperation of the people makes them vulnerable. They listen to and believe almost anyone and take anything The vultures/preying m. I guess the saying, ‘everything from western countries is good and aunthentic’ is put 2 the test. Its always a give and take. Nothing for nothing.
All third world countries are a ‘dumping ground’.