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[VIDEO] @pfizer Kano Trial: 24 years after, some victims not compensated and still can’t live normal lives

Two hundred children were administered with Trovafloxacin (Trovan), a vaccine then newly manufactured by Pfizer. | bit.ly/3f7EuFT

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Since Maryam was administered with Trovafloxacin (Trovan), a vaccine then newly manufactured by Pfizer, she has continued to live her life with complications arising from the treatment. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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Her problem include chronic waist and leg pains and incessant fever. Later, she started complaining of auditory problem, then  dizziness, resulting in loss of balance.

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The vaccine later affected the mobility of her waist and legs. So, she was being taken from one hospital to another administered with different injections and drugs, Ladi narrated. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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It is not clear if the complications affected Maryam’s memory 24 years after but many of her answers to questions were incoherent and she seemed to have forgotten many things about herself. #PfizerVaccineTrial

The treatment, it seems, has changed her life and now all she desires is living a healthy life free of pain. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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Audu Sani was a 10 years old boy when his father, Alaramma Audu Mai Nasiha, took him to the IDH in 1996 where he was diagnosed with Meningitis. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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After being used as one of the guinea pigs for the vaccine trial, Sani told #TheICIR that his auditory system was affected and he could not hear for many years until recently. And that was how his dream of becoming a medical doctor got shattered. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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“When we were young we used to go to the radio stations and whenever I was asked about the future I used to tell them that I would like to be a doctor in order to help people with their health issues, this really disturbed me whenever I thought of my ambition,” Sani said.

After the test, Sani’s health deteriorated as his parents took him from one hospital to another. Besides his hearing impairment, Sani said he stopped talking two months after the trial which made him relatively ‘deaf and dumb’. This stopped him from school while in Primary 3.

When he could not continue with western education, his paternal uncle suggested that he should be enrolled at Islamic and Arabic school in Borno State. And he needed to relocate to another town. bit.ly/3f6Adm0.

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It was during this period of his relocation that #Pfizer’s settlement agreement was reached with other victims but he was not reachable. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

Sani told TheICIR that it was at the Islamic school he noticed he was regaining his speech and other people also started noticing. Since then, Sani said he experiences annual sickness rituals ranging from severe headache and ear pains. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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Maryam Sani was pregnant when #TheICIR visited her home in Sharada, Gindingaru, #Kano municipality. The reporter had to repeat each question more than four times before she could hear him. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

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She was among the children whose life’s trajectory was changed by @pfizer’s ill-fated drug trial.

Maryam seems to have lost her memory, as she could not remember many of the events that have happened in-between the years. bit.ly/3f6Adm0

Now 29, the mother of three does not know the exact amount of money @pfizer agreed to pay victims but told #TheICIR that if paid, she will use it to care for her health and change the life of her family.

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