Despite an agreement between the Kano State government and Pfizer Inc that the latter should pay compensation to victims of the 1996 clinical trial of its drug, Trovan, the issue has remained mired in controversy with the pharmaceutical manufacturing...
Pfizer Inc a leading pharmaceutical company in the world conducted a clinical trial on 200 patients in Kano State. About 110 of the participants took Ceftriaxone; prided as the gold standard medicine for the treatment of meningitis, while 90 others were treated with Trovan.
Of the 200 participants, eleven persons died; six from those who took Ceftriazone and five from those who were administered with Trovan. Many others survived with some degree of incapacitation
The incident became a subject of litigation as the Kano State government dragged the company to court. In July 2009, both parties reached an agreement on how to settle the matter.
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