The drug was prescribed to pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s to treat morning sickness but caused major birth defects, including shortened limbs, damaged organs, nerves, eyesight and hearing.
“I don’t think anyone can but be sorry for the experience survivors of Thalidomide have had. Certainly as Taoiseach, I’m very sorry for the experience they have had and their families have had. It is important to say though that this is a medicine that was used 50 or 60 years ago in Ireland at a time when the State didn’t regulate any medicines in the way that it does now,” he said.
Pressed on whether a State apology would be forthcoming, Mr Varadkar said: “I think they do deserve an apology; the apology of course has come from the company that made the medicine.
Thalidomide survivors still haven't been take care of ? what the fuk are we spending all that NGO money on for ?
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