Pfizer: Nigeria drug trial victims get compensation

It paid $175,000 (P1.16m) each to four families in the first of a series of payments it is expected to make.The payouts are part of an out-of-court settlement reached in 2009.In 1996, 11 children died and dozens were left disabled after Pfizer gave them the experimental anti-meningitis drug, Trovan.

The children were part of a group of 200 given the drug during a meningitis epidemic in the northern city of Kano as part of a medical trial comparing Trovan's effectiveness with the established treatment.