(CMC) — A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Barbados Government alleging that she has suffered serious health complications after receiving two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in 2021.
The woman, through her attorney, has named the Office of the Attorney General as the defendant in the 2024 claim, in which she alleges that the Health and Wellness Ministry is liable for injuries she sustained as a result of receiving the vaccine.
The woman, who is being represented by constitutional attorney, King’s Counsel Larry Smith, alleges that the vaccine administered to her was “defective” and that the Government failed to provide a product that was as safe as she was entitled to expect under the Consumer Protection Act.
According to the court document, the woman received her first dose of the vaccine on or about April 23, 2021, and the second dose in June of that year. About two months later, she noticed that she had developed a “swollen bruise”, which was accompanied by “severe pain” below her right knee.
She subsequently visited a doctor on two occasions after experiencing additional symptoms, including severe chest pain and shortness of breath, according to the online publication Barbados TODAY, which said it had seen a copy of the court document.
The document stated that on both occasions, the doctor was unable to determine the cause of her injuries. She said that her symptoms reportedly worsened, with bruising spreading across her body, severe shortness of breath and declining energy levels. As a result, she returned to the doctor who referred her to a specialist for haematology assessments and testing.
The claim states that the pharmacovigilance team of the Barbados Drug Service conducted assessments into what was described as “a suspected drug-induced reaction post vaccination of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine”, associated with the batch of the last dose she had received. Blood samples were also collected and tested at the Barbados Reference Laboratory.
According to the court filing, the results indicated that the symptoms the woman was experiencing were vaccine-induced blood clotting side effects.
The final medical assessment described her condition as “a suspected case of vasculitis following the administration of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine on June 25, 2021”.
The woman alleges that between January 24, 2022 and July 7, 2023, she wrote five letters to the defendant, raising concerns about the Government’s liability for her condition. However, according to the claim, the Government has not submitted a “substantive reply”.
The court documents state that in early February 2022, the woman received an email from the Prime Minister’s Office acknowledging receipt of the January 24, 2022 letter she sent, and advising that the correspondence had been forwarded to the chief medical officer for “attention and follow-up action”.
A pre-action letter was subsequently sent to the chief medical officer seeking compensation for the vaccine injury with the lawsuit alleging negligence on the part of the Government, including failure to provide mechanisms to support participants suffering from severe complications from vaccines administered under the Barbados COVID-19 Vaccination Programme as well as failure to respond to the claimant regarding her condition despite sufficient knowledge of her condition.
The woman is seeking general damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenities, special damages including loss of earnings, legal costs with interest of six per cent per annum, and any other relief the court considers appropriate.
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Finally someone with cojones and it had to be a woman!
This is groundbreaking news!
Simply because it’s one of the first AstraZeneca lawsuits in the Caribbean region; whereas in Europe and other Western countries, not only have the vaccine injured taken their governments to court, but many have won compensation awards for their serious and very debilitating injuries.
I’m just surprised that a lawsuit such as the well documented mRNA AstraZeneca injustices in the Caribbean region has taken this long to be highlighted!
Those Antiguans who were sadly coerced by the former Health Minister Molwyn Joseph and the government (and also injured by the debilitating Myocarditis and Pericarditis AstraZeneca vaccine), need to keep a keen eye in particular on developments in this Barbados 🇧🇧 lawsuit.
THIS IS A LONG TIME COMING…
Yep, this is real. I had a friend with Long Covid as a result of the vaccine, he died in his sleep recently. This entire vaccine hoax cost some people their lives.
Furthermore, let’s hope that the last two paragraphs in this letter provides iron-clad proof that the Barbadian government didn’t do their due diligence on the well known side-effects of AstraZeneca, even when the makers in the UK knew and eventually banned its use around the globe.
The answer to this mysterious conundrum is why?
@My 2 sense, my neighbour who was very active can now hardly make it to his gate without catching his breath and returning back inside – He took the AstraZeneca vaccine!
When I told him I didn’t take it because I didn’t believe the government’s narrative, and I informed him of the global ban of AstraZeneca, my neighbour hadn’t got a clue. Like many Antiguans.
He trusted our former Health Minister Molwyn Joseph; and to now witness my neighbour’s health deteriorating before my very own eyes is utterly heartbreaking.
I’m sorry to hear about the loss of your dear friend 🙏🏾
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