File:Nigeria Pfizer In Court Again Over 1996 Illegal Drug Testing 11 Child Deaths!!

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Please Sub My New Channel Seek His Faceintheclouds https://www.youtube.com/user/seekhisfacetheclouds/ The Trovan Victims Forum, representing all victims, has gone back to an Abuja court to demand compensation over an alleged illegal testing of a drug which resulted in the death of several children. The Trovan victims had agreed to settled out of court two years ago when Pfizer agreed to pay seventy five million dollars compensation but till date only six of the two hundred victims have been compensated. According to the victims, a controversial DNA test was introduced by Pfizer which excluded many of the victims. At this new hearing, Pfizer described this new legal action by the victims as groundless because it has already settled their claims on mutually agreeable terms. Pfizer was sued after 11 children died in a clinical trial when the northern state of Kano was hit by Africa's worst ever meningitis epidemic in 1996. A hundred children were given an experimental oral antibiotic called Trovan, while a further hundred received ceftriaxone. Five children died on Trovan and six on ceftriaxone. Later it was claimed that Pfizer did not have proper consent from parents to use an experimental drug on their children and questions were raised over the documentation of the trial. Legal action filed against the company alleged that some received a dose lower than recommended, this left many children with brain damage, paralysis or slurred speech.

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