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Continued from page 27 – Pfizer’s Cold Blooded Logic is to develop safe medicines to prevent and treat the world's most serious diseases; making them available to the people who need them most. It is the pursuit of science that has enabled Pfizer over the last 150 years to make the world a healthier place for people to fulfill their potential. Our clinical investigation in Kano in 1996 was in the best tradition of Pfizer pursuing its purpose as a company. Meningitis is clearly a disease that limits people's potential to live full lives. Even today, in Kano, there can be no doubt that the stamp of meningitis still haunts it. Thousands of young people are maimed by varying degrees of hearing loss, mental retardation, paralysis, seizures and other debilitating symptoms associated with surviving this disease. In addition, the mourning of 12,000 lost young lives obviously still weighs heavily on their parents, relatives, friends and communities. That said, Pfizer objects to the false accusations made by a columnist in LEADERSHIP speaking to those audiences. Others may also object to your columnist's strong remarks. Moreover, nothing could be further from the truth than your columnist's accusation that Pfizer sees developing nations as inferior and therefore, undeserving of respect and fundamental rights. Pfizer is a global company whose medicines are available worldwide to treat diseases that generally have no geographic boundaries and do not distinguish between rich and poor. Pfizer has been in Nigeria for 50 years. In that time, Pfizer has formed alliances with stakeholders of all sorts to improve people's ability to live healthy lives by preventing premature deaths, easing pain and arresting illnesses. In Nigeria, Pfizer continues to partner with others to educate the public on the risks and prevention of heart disease, breast cancer and other ailments. The company also works with the government to ensure that Nigeria is constantly improving its regulatory framework governing access to drugs, their pricing and ethical use. In the process, Pfizer has risked its reputation, shareholders' capital and won many allies among its many stakeholders. In other words, Pfizer takes and always has taken Nigeria seriously as a respected long-term business partner. Pfizer has always accepted that the suffering of the people of Kano was real. The devastation caused by meningitis in 1996 is still doing harm to the people of the region today. But by breaking the bonds of trust between companies that exist to bring life saving drugs to market and those who require them to combat disease and fulfill their potential, the columnist in LEADERSHIP commits his own errors. That's why we were obliged to respond. Ngozi Edozien is the Managing Director of Pfizer Specialties Nigeria http://allafrica.com/stories/200710310526.html ☻☻☻☻☻☻ Pfizer Asks Court to Quash FG's Meningitis Drug Test Report By Mohammed Lawal Shuaibu Daily Trust (Abuja) 25 October 2007 The families of children killed or maimed during a drug test in 1996 have appealed to an Abuja high court to be allowed to present their stories during the trial. But lawyers acting for pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer said the move was illegal because they lack representative capacity to be involved and their application does not disclose sufficient interest in the subject matter to enable the court exercise jurisdiction. The federal government said it would welcome anything that would hasten the process of justice for the drug victims. The presiding judge, Justice Anwuri Chikere, adjourned to October 29, for hearing. Pfizer yesterday asked the court to throw out the federal government's report which declared as illegal, its 1996 Kano meningitis drug test. The lawyer representing Pfizer, Mr Anthony I. Idigbe (SAN), said the application to quash the report before the court was on grounds that the panel did not carry out proper investigations on the issue before carrying out the report. A federal government panel headed by Dr Nasidi Abdussalam of the Federal Ministry of Health had reported in March 2001, that the Pfizer drug test was illegal and responsible for the death of over 11 Nigerians in Kano. But Pfizer says they were not given opportunity to crossexamine witnesses who gave evidence at the panel and that the report can not form the basis for the federal government's suit against the company. He said: "even the so called victims had sued the federal government on the drug issue until a kangaroo panel set up by the government forced them to withdraw the suit in 2003." Continued on page 29 -28- Traditional African Clinic April 2009
Continued from page 28 – Pfizer Asks Court to Quash FG Meningitis Drug Report But the federal government said it would come all out to challenge the multi-national drug company from quashing the report in court. Mr Babatunde Irukera, counsel to the government, said Pfizer is only afraid of anything that could prove the clinical test that killed many Nigerians in Kano illegal. "It is absurd for Pfizer to think of quashing the Nasidi report in court. The government will contest it because the report was carried out by professionals in health and pharmaceutical sectors. Their fear is that the report will expose their heinous act of using Nigerians as guinea pigs," he said. The counsel maintained the company is guilty of charges against it and insisted on prosecuting it until they are punished by the law for illegally testing the meningitis drug. Also, victims were in court yesterday to consolidate the suit against Pfizer but the company said the move was illegal because they lack representative capacity to be involved and that their application does not disclose sufficient interest in the subject matter to enable the court exercise jurisdiction. The federal government said it would welcome anything that would hasten the process of justice for the drug victims. The presiding judge, Justice Anwiri Chikeri adjourned to October 29 for hearing. http://allafrica.com/stories/200710250603.html ☻☻☻☻☻☻ Pfizer Official Appears in Court By Ibrahim Shuaibu, Kano This Day (Lagos) 12 January 2008 One of the three accused staff of Pfizer International Incorporated Nigeria, Segun Dogunro, appeared before a Kano High Court yesterday over a criminal case instituted by the Kano State government over an alleged illegal drug trial in 1996 by Pfizer, which killed many children. Dogunro was, however, granted bail to the tune of N5 million. It would be recalled that presiding judge, Justice Shehu Atiku had issued a warrant of arrest on three officers of Pfizer for their failure to appear before it after receiving court summons on a criminal suit. Counsel to Pfizer, Damian Dodo (SAN), filed a motion for an acceleration hearing of the case and also pleaded for adjournment of the sitting to the next day to enable one of the defendants arrested by the court appear before it. The applicant, Barrister Aliyu Umar, who is also Kano State Attorney General, supported the motion, informing the court that he had been briefed by the police who said one of the bench warrant was successfully executed, adding that based on mutual understanding with his learned colleague, he supports the adjournment. Justice Shehu, after interrogating both counsels, adjourned the sitting to the next day to enable the arrested defendant appear before the court. Speaking with THISDAY shortly after the court session, the applicant, Umar, explained that he succumbed to the motion filed by his colleague for the accelerated sitting based on mutual understanding, said after the accelerated hearing of this motion, it means the court will go substantive hearing of the case. According to him, what the counsel to the defendant will present before the court tomorrow is an application because of the three people have been arrested. Barrister Umar hinted that the defendant counsel will file an application for bail which we will not oppose because our trial in not to punish anybody before the courts decides he is guilty or not. "They have assured us that the will bring the three accused persons before the court on 29th and we agreed until then because what we want is for the accused person to appear before the court in the cause of the trials'. They want an assurance from us and we have assured them that the suit was not to humiliate or get anybody imprisoned, adding that what Kano state government is trying to do it to prove to the world that some innocent children suffered damages and untold hardship. Kano state government filed civil and criminal suits against Pfizer in May, claiming $2.75 billion in compensation and prosecution of nine Pfizer staff for allegedly testing a meningitis drug called Trovan on 200 children in April 1996 during a triple epidemic of measles, cholera and meningitis in which over 12,000 people died. http://allafrica.com/stories/200801140133.html ☻☻☻☻☻☻ Ananova: Meningitis Children 'do worse' A quarter of teenagers who suffered meningitis as a child do not pass any GCSEs above grade C, accord-ing to a new study. Continued on page 32 -29- Traditional African Clinic April 2009
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