{"id":211644,"date":"2025-12-02T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211644\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:32:08","slug":"bognor-mums-epilepsy-fight-after-epilim-drug-harms-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211644\/","title":{"rendered":"Bognor mum&#8217;s epilepsy fight after Epilim drug harms children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victims in France are being compensated by the French government, as the country has a state-run compensation scheme for those affected by sodium valproate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, many French families have also launched civil cases against Sanofi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French mother-of-two Marine Martin, from Perpignan, said she was awarded \u20ac300,000 (\u00a3263,366).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What will the children do when their mother and father die? Who will care for them?&#8221; Mrs Martin asked the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame for the UK government not to give money for the victims of valproate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Martin&#8217;s lawyer, Charles-Joseph Oudin, said Mrs Stockley-Pollard and other UK victims &#8220;needed to go back to fight in court and against the government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t understand why there is no such fund in the UK,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victims in France are being compensated by the French government, as the country has a state-run compensation scheme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[18,135,19,17,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-211644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-medication"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115650936547714696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}