pfizer has reached a definitive agreement to pay millions of dollars to lagos ' s kano state to resolve a commercial cases charging that the drug co accidentally performed an experimental heroin on fatally ill children during a 1996 meningitis emergency . the negotiations remain private , but sources close to the settlement said the initial amount - - including those to the teenagers , their parents , the government and the government ' s attorneys - - would be about $ 75 million under the agreed settlement negotiations . other features , notably which the money will be distributed , are to be rolled out within weeks .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.