Allowances for narcolepsy children investigated

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Allowances for narcolepsy children investigated

Pandemrix influenza vaccine.
02/03/2011 18:50 - View larger image - Photo: Yle
Social Affairs and Health is investigating the issue of compensation to the children and young people diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix.

The Minister Paula Risikko (Coll) said the parliamentary question hour that the Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool, which primarily pays out compensation.

Risikko said Social Affairs and Health Ministry is negotiating with the Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool for reimbursement schedule.

There is said to begin evaluating applications for compensation until August, but according Risikko it is too late.

- We absolutely must think about whether they could initiate the processing of payments in the past and expedite the payment, said Risikko.

Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool announced on Tuesday that you can not judge the issue of compensation on the basis of the report by the Institute for Health and Welfare came into question.

In order to pay the compensation required of the final research results.

Risikko will meet with parents of children diagnosed with narcolepsy in March to discuss compensation issues.

 

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Re: Allowances for narcolepsy children investigated

Source:
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Na...n+vaccinated+for+H1N1+last+year/1135262379639

Narcolepsy diagnosed in 41 children vaccinated for H1N1 last year
Surge seen only in Sweden and Finland


Forty one children and young people in Finland who were vaccinated for the H1N1, or swine flu virus last winter have been diagnosed with narcolepsy. In addition, there have been a few cases of the disease in which there was no record of a swine flu vaccination.
Sweden and Finland are the only two countries to report a surge in narcolepsy the same vaccine was used in Canada, where there were only a few cases of the disease.

Narcolepsy has been on the increase in Finland in the past ten years, but not among such young patients. The symptoms of the young victims have been more severe than usual....more at the link