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
However, many French families have also launched civil cases against Sanofi. <\/p>\n
French mother-of-two Marine Martin, from Perpignan, said she was awarded \u20ac300,000 (\u00a3263,366).<\/p>\n
“What will the children do when their mother and father die? Who will care for them?” Mrs Martin asked the BBC.<\/p>\n
“It’s a shame for the UK government not to give money for the victims of valproate.”<\/p>\n
Mrs Martin’s lawyer, Charles-Joseph Oudin, said Mrs Stockley-Pollard and other UK victims “needed to go back to fight in court and against the government”.<\/p>\n
“I can’t understand why there is no such fund in the UK,” 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-330018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}