One step forward, two steps back. Just when we thought the State had learned lessons on the need to own up to health scandals come revelations about its attitude to thalidomide survivors.
Thalidomide was a wonder drug licensed here in the late 1950s and early 1960s which was given to pregnant women to prevent morning sickness and insomnia.
But it led to one of the worst drugs scandals worldwide and left 34 Irish children with deformities, which were very severe in many cases.
Babies commonly suffered missing or deformed limbs and severe shortening of the arms and legs.
By Eilish O'Regan ©Independent.ie
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