A patients group representing several British victims has launched legal action against the Spanish government over claims it failed to safeguard people against the potentially fatal side effects of one of the country’s most popular painkillers, involved in a series of serious illnesses and deaths.
García del Campo, a translator from Jávea in Alicante, started investigating when one of her clients, an Irishman, fell seriously ill, with infections racking his body.
One of the patients in García del Campo’s files, Paddy Clancy, 80, a British expatriate who lives in Jávea, said last week that he nearly died after he was given metamizole following a shoulder operation in September 2017.
That report has not been published and there is no comprehensive and robust epidemiological evidence to date to support the theory that British or Irish people may be more susceptible to the drug’s side effects.
In October 2018, less than a year after García del Campo had started her campaign, Spain’s medicines and health products agency, the AEMPS, brought out new guidelines for metamizole.
Carla Cardwell, 41, who is originally from the UK and now lives in Gibraltar, gave birth to her son, Caiden, in December 2019 by caesarean section just across the Spanish border in the town of La Línea.
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A patients group representing several British victims has launched legal action against the Spanish government over claims it failed to safeguard people against the potentially fatal side effects of one of the country’s most popular painkillers, involved in a series of serious illnesses and deaths.
García del Campo, a translator from Jávea in Alicante, started investigating when one of her clients, an Irishman, fell seriously ill, with infections racking his body.
One of the patients in García del Campo’s files, Paddy Clancy, 80, a British expatriate who lives in Jávea, said last week that he nearly died after he was given metamizole following a shoulder operation in September 2017.
That report has not been published and there is no comprehensive and robust epidemiological evidence to date to support the theory that British or Irish people may be more susceptible to the drug’s side effects.
In October 2018, less than a year after García del Campo had started her campaign, Spain’s medicines and health products agency, the AEMPS, brought out new guidelines for metamizole.
Carla Cardwell, 41, who is originally from the UK and now lives in Gibraltar, gave birth to her son, Caiden, in December 2019 by caesarean section just across the Spanish border in the town of La Línea.
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