Victims of the Trovan drug test in Kano State have threatened to sue Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company if it does not release the results of the DNA screening it conducted earlier this year within seven days. The ultimatum came from counsel to a group, Trovan Victims’ Forum, Etigwe Ewa, in a petition to the Healthcare/Meningitis Trust Fund set up by Pfizer and the Kano State Government to execute the out-of-court settlement in 2009. On behalf of the forum, the umbrella body for the 192 victims of the Trovan clinical trials, Ewa accused Pfizer and the Healthcare/Meningitis of breaching the out-of-court deal by deliberately delaying the payment of compensation to other victims.
