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Thalidomide Victims To Get £20m And Apology

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... 5245?f=rss


	Quote: There are 463 surviving victims - called "thalidomiders" - in the UK.

£20m sounds like a grand figure, but after all these decades and the amount of victims it doesn't add up to much IMO...

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Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:37 pm

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Re: Thalidomide Victims To Get £20m And Apology

I'd imagine that the ~£43k each wouldn't go very far towards all the wheelchairs etc they need.

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	Coref wrote: I'd imagine that the ~£43k each wouldn't go very far towards all the wheelchairs etc they need.

Getting money for anything that isn't warming-related seems to be difficult, doesn't it?

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Re: Thalidomide Victims To Get £20m And Apology

Aren't the victims mostly dead already? I only knew one, and she died in her late thirties from a heart problem.

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	JJW009 wrote: Aren't the victims mostly dead already?

Would it be cynical to suggest that's why they kept them waiting so long.

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Re: Thalidomide Victims To Get £20m And Apology

Coref wrote:


	JJW009 wrote: Aren't the victims mostly dead already?

Would it be cynical to suggest that's why they kept them waiting so long.

Not at all, probably

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