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"en.20161215.22.4-227-375"2
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"This resolution deals with the well-known issue of thalidomide – the largest medical scandal of the 20th century. Produced by German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal, thalidomide was marketed in the 1950s as a safe drug and was used by pregnant women to ease their morning sickness, which led to 20 000 babies being born with severe deformities while another 80 000 were miscarried, stillborn or died in infancy.
The product was eventually withdrawn in the early 1960s but the trial against nine Grunenthal employees was prematurely ended in 1970 after the Federal German Government intervened to end it – subsequently meaning that no one has ever received a criminal conviction for the disaster.
Whether or not a thalidomide victim received any lump-sum payments and special monthly living allowances depends very much on the country they came from. This resolution calls on the Thalidomide Foundation (which provides funds from Grunenthal in Germany to help the victims) to be open to all victims no matter which country they are in and also calls for a protocol to ensure that all victims receive similar amounts of compensation. For these reasons I supported the resolution."@en1
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