Nigeria: Pfizer - Victims' Medical Records Missing

5 October 2009

Kano — THE medical records of the victims of the 1996 Pfizer Trovan clinical trial cannot be found either at the Kano State Ministry of Health or at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) where the ill-fated clinical trials of the drug were conducted, the state's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Barrister Aliyu Umar said in Kano yesterday. This happened just as he confirmed that the state government had received $10million from Pfizer, being part of the $75million settlement of the protracted dispute.

Umar said failure to lay its hands on the medical records informed the state government's decision to set up the Meningitis Healthcare Trust Fund charged with the responsibility of disbursing the compensation funds to rightful victims of the illegal drug clinical test.

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