The controversial Bayer AG drug if personified could have been imprisoned for 22,000 life sentences for the number of deaths caused by its delayed recall.

The drug Trasylol was indeed guilty of the series of senseless deaths among American patients undergoing an open heart surgery based on the number of observations made.

One of the medical researchers confirmed that many lives could have spared if the U.S. health experts advised the immediate recall of the drug in the market. It was only officially taken off from the shelves last November after confirmation of its threatening effects linked to aggravating the conditions of the patients.

It was found that patients undergoing dialysis succumbed to kidney failure and others died due to the drug’s side effects. Before the drug was recalled, it was one of the drugs prescribed to one-third of all the patients in the U.S. who underwent bypass operation. Instead of recovering from their bleeding, taking the drug worsened their condition causing more kidney disorders and other complications.

This report was featured in CBS News report and Dr. Dennis Mangano, the study’s researcher, felt upset to what happened when he was interviewed. He blamed Bayer’s failure to immediately report to the FDA the results that the company discovered in their internal investigation regarding the drug’s potency sometime in September 2006.

Mangano stressed had they known Trasylol’s dangers, more patients could have survived their diseases and recovered after the operation. In such case, who should be reprimanded? Bayer can take the blame, but 22,000 patients have already died.

This indeed was more painful for those family members who have lost their loved-ones due to Bayer’s negligence to inform the public.

More than the moral and administrative damages, they need to had in-house re-inventory and rechecking of their other high-end medicines so that this event will not happen again.

Bayer, as of press time, is facing lawsuits from the family members of the patients who have taken the drug and died. Matters are gloomy as to how the drug company will face several allegations of not protecting the patients’ welfare.

Reuters