£3.4 million for Scottish thalidomide victims

By DailyReporter Published: 6:00AM GMT twenty-six February 2010

The income will be outlayed over 3 years to have changes to homes and benefit squeeze dilettante equipment.

Pregnant women were prescribed the drug in between 1958 and 1961 as a diagnosis for sunrise illness or insomnia. It was cold from sale after babies were innate with prong deformities and alternative disabilities.

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There are 55 well known thalidomide survivors in Scotland who can good from the Scottish Executive money.

Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish health minister, said: "Half a century later, the survivors of thalidomide are still battling opposite the disabilities the prescribing of the drug caused.

"Now, as they turn older, they are expected to need a range of benefit and instrumentation to capacitate them to go on to live as exclusively as possible, for as prolonged as possible, and this appropriation will benefit them to do that."

Liz Buckle, 49, a thalidomide plant who lives on the island of Lismore, nearby Oban, welcomed the funding, that will be administered by the Thalidomide Trust.

Mike O"Brien, a UK Government health minister, voiced a �20 million account last month when he apologised for the liaison surrounding the drug"s history.

The drug"s UK manufacturer, Distillers Biochemicals, paid about �28 million remuneration in the 1970s following a authorised conflict by the family groups of those affected.